Paper Ballots! The security that paper ballots

[Hoyt]

4. Maybe. Lyndon Johnson supposedly won his first ever election with allegedly fraudulent paper ballots

When I was little, there were always articles about stolen ballot boxes, faked tabulations, errors, etc.

I'm more for paper receipts. Don't care what you do, the election can be hacked or manipulated. Even if it's not, losers are often like boxers when it comes to claiming the match was stolen -- "I was robbed." Of course, sometimes it is stolen.








"It has been alleged for years that Johnson captured his Senate seat through fraud, but Mr. Caro goes into great detail to tell how the future President overcame a 20,000-vote deficit to achieve his famous 87-vote victory in the 1948 Democratic runoff primary against a former Governor, Coke Stevenson. A South Texas political boss, George Parr, had manufactured thousands of votes, Mr. Caro found. Johnson died in 1973, Stevenson and Parr in 1975. Mr. Caro says the election showed Johnson's determination to win at all costs as well as his coolness under fire and his ability to select gifted lieutenants, whom he then manipulated."

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/11/us/how-johnson-won-election-he-d-lost.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_13_scandal