According to the initial investigators. That was a bit of a problem, which is why the box had to mysteriously disappear. They couldn't resist taking a picture first:
Posted on 02/13/2008 12:09:48 PM PST by frogbreath
It was 1948 Texas in Democratic politics. In a Sentate run-off election Coke Stevenson led LBJ at midnight by 2,119 votes out of 939,468 counted. Several days later Stevenson was declared the winner.
Then, six days after the election, a funny thing happened: 203 votes turned up in Box 13 from the primarily Hispanic town of Alice, Texas. Even funnier: 202 of those votes were for Lyndon Johnson. The Stevenson campaign smelled a rat when it was discovered that the votes had been cast at the last minute and in alphabetical order. Charges of election fraud ensued, and the disputed contest went all the way to the Supreme Court, where liberal Justice Hugo Black upheld Johnson's 11th-hour win over conservative Democrat Stevenson. He was declared the winner by 87 votes.
Go Hillary! Learn from the past!
Washington state Gov election in ‘04 votes miraculously turned up in King County....
I think the most dangerous job of 2008 is to be a democratic party super delegate
The preachers in LBJ’s district began to preach against him. In response, LBJ got legislation passed in 1954 making political speech in churches a violation of the income tax laws. Just a bit of history — let’s call it how your freedoms were destroyed “Introduction.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/765344/posts
According to wikipedia, Justice Black didn’t make the final call - it gets even better:
“Justice Hugo L. Black declared that the matter would rest with the 59-member Democratic State Central Committee. That panel by a 29-28 vote sustained Johnson’s margin of victory. The tie-breaking vote was cast by the Temple publisher Frank W. Mayborn (1903-1987), who at the urging of Johnson’s then campaign manager, John B. Connally, rushed back to Texas from a business trip in Nashville, Tennessee, to break an otherwise 28-28 tie.”
This is Clinton-type politics, maybe she can pull it out of her pantsuit yet...
Ever after, he was known as “Landslide Lyndon”.
Yup. and that was the plan in Florida 200 also, had they been able to ram it through.
Yeah, not only did 202 dead people show up to vote, they came in alphabetical order.
“Ever after, he was known as “Landslide Lyndon”.”
And this obvious vote fraud has gone down in Texas history as the “Miracle of Ballot Box 13” because not only did the Mexicans vote in alphbetical order, but many of them were dead as well.
I have no doubt that such chicanery is in Hillary’s play book. However, even CBS is going to have a hard time explaining to the African American population why the Hillabeast stole an almost sure election from the 1st black president. (’Cuz I’m sure not voting for McKennedy...and this seems to be the consensus of most of my conservative friends.)
According to the initial investigators. That was a bit of a problem, which is why the box had to mysteriously disappear. They couldn't resist taking a picture first:
Also, the last couple of voters at that precinct were interviewed. They had cast their votes about 5-10 minutes before closing time, and they saw no line of people, they saw no one else coming in to vote.
Another interesting tidbit, is that in 1942 LBJ had had a Senate seat stolen from him by Pappy O’Daniel. I guess in the six years that followed, LBJ vowed to be the stealer rather than the stealee....and the rest is history.
Interesting that he became VP in ‘60 because JFK and his mob buddies stole the election in Illinois.
Interesting career, LBJ, to say the least.
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