 During the same election, Democrat Beto O'Rourke won the county in the Senate contest with 53.85% of the vote.Jim Wells County is known as the home of “Box 13”, the infamous ballot box which gave
Lyndon Baines Johnson an 86-vote edge over popular former governor Coke Stevenson in the Democratic primary election.It was later demonstrated that these 200 votes were "stuffed" into the ballot box after the polls had closed.