Where anything goes and whither goeth many many SS checks, sometimes many to the same mailbox.
Our amigos y vecinos del sur invented the virtual person ages ago when they discovered that 1 Mexican in Mexico could easily be three or four people in the nearby territory of Aztlán.
Manuel Rodriguez y Gomez soon discovered that he was listed alphabetically under G for Gomez. So the next time, he simply becomes Manuel Rodriguez, But few gringo flak catchers knew that he could be Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez, or Manuel R. Gomez. María Hernández, his encantadora esposa, is actually María Hernández de Rodriguez, Maria Rodriguez, María Rodriguez-Gomez, etc. ad nauseam, depending upon the head of the unit's imaginaciòn and the incompetence of the issuing agencies.
Soon, como la noche sigue la tarde, came drivers licenses in each name, all kinds of multiple goodie plastic ID's for health care, food stamps, and the entire panoply of CA welfare services. Not to mention green cards and SS IDs.
You see gringos, in the old-fashioned Spanish culture, one's name is a matter that permits of much personal interpretation. Besides, there are just not that many surnames in Spanish to begin with. A simple phone book check in Yourtown USA should prove that to your satisfaction. Look up José Sánchez. 18 pages later .....
Thus, it seemed so natural to Loretta Sanchez. She gave each contrived persona a contrived family ... and hey, they had to live somewhere ... and vote for someone ... how about Loretta?
Thanks Kenny Bunk.