For five days after the runoff, Stevenson believed he had beat Lyndon in the closest senatorial election in American history. Out of nearly one million votes cast, he had a 112-vote lead. Then, on the sixth day, a precinct in Parr territory - Precinct 13 in Alice, in Jim Wells County - reported an amended return, with 203 additional votes, 201 of them for Johnson. This gave LBJ a plurality of 87 votes. It also gave him the mocking nickname of "Landslide Lyndon."
The results were challenged. Stevenson showed up with a Texas Ranger at a bank in Alice, which had the precinct boxes. ...
Stevenson inspected the tally sheets and found that the last 203 names on the list for Box 13 were in alphabetical order, and they were written in the same color ink.
When the case was taken to court in Jim Wells County, and Box 13 opened in court, the lists that Stevenson had seen were missing. The state Democratic Executive Committee certified Johnson as the nominee. A bitter Stevenson said, "I was beaten by a stuffed ballot box."