The Box 13 scandal was a political scandal that occurred in Jim Wells County, Texas, during the 1948 United States Senate elections, regarding disputed votes in a Democratic primary involving Lyndon B. Johnson and Coke Stevenson.

2023年3月31日 · The statement comes from Luis Salas, who was the election judge for Jim Wells County’s notorious Box 13, which produced just enough votes in the 1948 Texas Democratic primary runoff to give Johnson the nomination, then tantamount to election, to the U.S. Senate.

2023年4月1日 · The story, which made front pages across the country, pulled back the curtain on the razor-thin victory that had drawn suspicions ever since election officials in rural Jim Wells County announced the discovery of uncounted votes in a ballot box known as Box 13 in the days after the 1948 Democratic primary Senate runoff.

2023年4月1日 · Lawrence said much is now known about Box 13, thanks to both Mangan's 1977 story and research done later by LBJ biographer Robert Caro, who “essentially reaffirmed” Mangan's story and built...

2023年4月1日 · DALLAS (AP) — The story was a blockbuster: A former Texas voting official was on the record detailing how nearly three decades earlier, votes were falsified to give then-congressman Lyndon B....

1990年3月4日 · FOR THE past 40 years, the story of Box 13 in tiny Alice, Texas, has stood as one of the great mysteries and richest tales in American politics. It is the story of how Lyndon Johnson stole the...

2013年1月23日 · Those 201 votes gave LBJ the victory over Stevenson, and the rest is history. The results made headlines nationwide, as there were allegations of fraud. A petition for injunction and temporary...

2020年3月15日 · Then six days after the election, with Stevenson holding a slim lead, the Election Bureau in Austin got a telegram saying that Jim Wells County officials discovered some uncounted votes in Box 13. The corrected total was now 1,988 for …

In 1948, a heated Texas Senate primary comes down to a very mysterious box of ballots found in Jim Wells County — which conveniently put Lyndon Johnson ahead by just a few votes.

1998年8月23日 · The contested 1948 Democratic primary runoff for the Senate in which Lyndon Johnson is accused of stealing the election by massive fraud when supporters stuffed Box 13 for him in Jim Wells...