I think there are many things in our history, long ago to recently, we will never know the half of. Today regarding the Allen West recount in Florida my husband said, “Duval County.” Well, a lot of people would have no idea what that meant, but that is how LBJ was elected. A lot changed in the world because of that one county ruled by the man known as the Duke of Duval County. We live in Texas, it is a history we know. Strange things cause changes in the stream of history and I have probably gone as far as I can in my part in any of it. Yet I try,
Here’s the story of Duval County and the lost ballot box as told in the Houston Chronicle:
Today in Texas History: LBJ’s ‘stolen’ Senate victory
On this date in 1948, Box 13 in Duval County provided Lyndon Johnson the victory margin as the gangly congressman from Johnson City won a hotly contested Senate race by 87 votes.
Six days after election, authorities in Alice (now in Jim Wells County) “discovered” 202 additional ballots in precinct #13 that had not been counted.
Johnson received 200 of those votes. His opponent, Coke Stevenson, got two.
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Later, it was reported that the ballots seemed to be written in the same ink. And the voters allegedly voted in alphabetical order.
Johnson never acknowledged that his allies stole the election. But former Texas Observer editor Ronnie Dugger told a story of visiting LBJ in the White House. The then-president whipped out a photo of five good ol’ boys from Alice with the infamous Box 13 sitting on the hood of their vehicle.
Dugger asked LBJ if he had stolen the election.
Laughter.
And remember the district was gerrymandered away from Allen West by his fellow Republicans.
Glad you posted this; I had forgotten – not that it happened, but to relate it to today’s habitual voter fraud. Yes, LBJ caused a lot of irreversible damage.