Hillary is wrong about election fraud

Published June 16, 2015 9:00am ET



Recently at Texas Southern University, Hillary Clinton charged “Republicans at all levels of government” with “fear-mongering about a phantom epidemic of election fraud.” At the time, the former secretary of state was standing only a little over 200 miles from Jim Wells County, home of the infamous Ballot Box 13.

In 1948, a run-off election was held to determine the Democratic nominee for an open U.S. Senate seat. Ballot Box 13 was stuffed with 200 fraudulent votes (in alphabetical order) on the orders of George Parr, the local party boss. Those sham votes gave Lyndon B. Johnson an 87-vote win (out of a million cast).

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