#MaidenGate: Group finds name changes used in vote-fraud scheme

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The maiden names of women and the previous legal names of others were used in a scheme to create fake voter registrations and request fraudulent ballots, contends an independent group collecting evidence under the hashtag #MaidenGate.

Changed names, adoptive names and divorced names are part of the scheme, reports American Greatness.

The #MaidenGate page documents instances of married women voting in one state under their current name while someone else casts a vote under a previous or maiden name.

"We are not looking for individuals who have registrations in multiple states. That’s a problem but not this problem," the site explains. "We are not even looking for individuals who are registered multiple times in the same state. Again, a problem but not the scope of this problem. We are looking for individuals who voted in this election (or chose not to) but also had another vote cast in a previous legal name of theirs at an address they previously occupied."

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The page lists links around the nation where people can verify whether or not ballots have been cast in their name.