"They called it Box 13.
In 1948, Lyndon B. Johnson faced former Texas Governor Coke Stevenson in a Democratic Senate runoff. With nearly one million votes cast, Johnson appeared headed for defeat.
Then, six days after the election, officials in Jim Wells County revised the returns.
More than 200 additional votes appeared for Johnson from the infamous Box 13. The names had been added alphabetically in the same handwriting. According to the election judge, they belonged to people who had not voted.
Johnson was declared the winner by just 87 votes.
Decades later, election judge Luis Salas admitted what happened:
“Johnson did not win the election. It was stolen for him. And I know exactly how it was done.”
Those 87 votes sent Johnson to the United States Senate. From there, he became Senate Majority Leader, Vice President, and eventually President of the United States.
American history turned on one ballot box controlled by one political machine.
Box 13 teaches a lesson the political establishment desperately wants Americans to forget:
Election fraud does not require millions of fraudulent votes. It requires enough votes in the right place, controlled by people who value party loyalty more than the law.
Conservatives do not demand election safeguards because we oppose democracy. We demand them because history proves that dishonest people will corrupt elections when given the opportunity.
Clean voter rolls. Voter identification. Paper ballots. Documented chain of custody. Public observation. Real audits. Severe penalties.
History does not prove every election was stolen.
It proves elections have been stolen.
Trust the voter.
Verify the vote.
Secure the process." Gregg Phillips