A brief history of Democratic election fraud: the Lyndon Johnson case
For the US Democrats, as for the Italic Piddini, Democracy, the one with a capital "D", made up of real votes from real people, of verifiable counts, of honesty, has always been a sort of bureaucratic obstacle to get around. Moreover, when one feels invested with a sort of higher mission, the popular will is a bureaucratic formality to be circumvented in every way.
In the US, Democrats have always been very good at this type of business. A sensational case, which has profoundly influenced American history, is that of the election of Lyndon B. Johnson as senator from Texas.
This super fraud occurred in 1948, when LBJ ran for Democrats in the United States Senate against Texas Governor Coke Stevenson, one of the most admired and respected in the history of the Lone Star.
In the first round of elections, Stevenson surpassed Johnson by 70,000 votes, but not having an absolute majority of votes, he was forced to run on a Saturday ballot. On the Sunday morning after the ballot, Stevenson led by 854 votes.
the day after the electoral playoff it was "discovered" that the data for a particular county had not yet been counted and the majority of the new votes were in favor of Johnson. Then on Monday, after two days, data came from the Rio Grande Valley.
Despite all these late additions on Tuesday, the State Electoral Bureau announced that that Stevenson had won by 349 votes. Nothing changed on Wednesday and Thursday, but on Friday the Rio Grande Valley districts made "corrections" to their counts, reducing Stevenson's lead to 157.
Friday came the surprise: Jim Wells County, which was ruled as a personal fiefdom by a powerful South Texas farmer named George Parr, presented "fixes" for what became known as "Box 13" which he gave Johnson. another 200 votes. Eventually, Johnson "won" the election with 87 votes.
It was later discovered that one of Parr's men had changed Johnson's total count from 765 to 965, simply by correcting the 7 to a 9.
Where did the extra 200 votes come from?
The last 202 names on the electoral register in box 13 were in a different color ink from the rest of the names, were in alphabetical order, and were all written in the same handwriting. An NYT reporter writing a book on the matter recorded a statement from Luis Salas, a Jim Wells County electoral judge, who recognized the fraud and confessed to his role in its accomplishment.
Of course Stevenson protested and investigated where he enlisted the assistance of Frank Hamer, the Texas Ranger who had trapped and killed Bonnie and Clyde. It didn't help: Johnson got a friendly state judge to issue an injunction to preserve the status quo and there was no recount, after which the Democratic Executive Committee, in a single vote, declared Johnson the winner.
Stevenson took the matter to federal court, but the Supreme Court refrained from ruling, declaring that he had no right to interfere with a state election.
Let's think about the consequences of this electoral fraud. If LBJ had not become a senator for Texas he would not have stood out in Washington, he would not have been chosen by Kennedy as vice president and therefore he would not have become president first in place of the John Fitzgeralds, thus getting himself elected. We wouldn't have had the social policies, but we probably wouldn't have had the broad intervention in Vietnam either.
The only real difference between Trump and Stevenson is that Trump has appointed three Supreme Court justices. Otherwise the fraud will be even worse than in 1948.
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