[SwinneySwitch]

These votes were all in the democrat primary. Duval county had no republican chairman or primary this year.

4,098 of the total 5,445 primary ballots were early voters and 2,800 of those were by mail!

To be eligible to vote early by mail in Texas, you must:

be 65 years or older;

be disabled;

be out of the county on election day and during the period for early voting by personal appearance; or

be confined in jail, but otherwise eligible.

[WestTexasWend]

Wouldn't be surprised if the same people who voted for LBJ then are voting 'absentee' now...and still in alphabetical order, of course.

[gunnedah]

You left out two of the most important ones:
Being dead and being a Democrat!

[deport]

4,098 of the total 5,445 primary ballots were early voters and 2,800 of those were by mail!

The article states 55% of the registered voters...

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However none of this matches to any results posted on the Secretary of State's election web site for the Democrat primary in Duval County.....

http://enr.sos.state.tx.us/dem1county65.htm

I guess the mail in ballots may not be included in the total as shown on the SOS results... The highest totals shown on the web site are for the two Props. All the candidate races show much less.

But all said and done the Duke of Duval and box 13 in Alice gave Landside Lyndon the 204 vote statewide margin to become the Senator from Texas in 1948...