You also can’t run for office under an alias.
Good point. It would also be a nightmare for all those retailers of Barack Obama Inauguration Commemorative crap if they had to change it to Barry Soetoro Inauguration Commemorative crap!
Sure you can. Cornelius Harvey McGillicuddy IV runs, gets elected, and serves today in Congress under the same alias that his father used when he was a senator - Connie Mack.
You truly do make this stuff up as you go along, don't you?