Anyone read the Robert Caro books on LBJ? The 1948 Texas Senate race was completely fixed for Johnson. He trailed Coke Stevenson by the slimmest of margins. Then one of his people in one of his counties turned a “7” into a “9” on Johnsons vote tallies for that district. The worker then proceeded to fill in 200 voter records in alphabetical order all in red ink. Despite the blatant fraud, the courts ended up siding with Johnson and he trounced the Republican candidate in the general election.
Without that election win, Johnson’s political career may have been over and certainly he would have been in no position to ever become vice president and president. Vietnam may never have happened and the history of this country would gave dramatically changes. All because one guy in his campaign’s employ turned a 700 into a 900 with one small pen swipe and made a half-ass attempt to cover it up and got away with it.. Theres plenty of details i left out and its been a few years since i read those books.