Editor’s note: Vote early – vote often.
It’s a comic headline we use every time an election season rolls around, if for no other reason than just for laughs. The phrase, though, didn’t actually originate in the Rio Grande Valley, although it probably could have. Rather, it comes from a Texas county north of here – Duval – where the kingmaker there, George Parr, is thought to have thrown the 1948 U.S. Senate race in favor of LBJ by stuffing the names of approximately 200 dead people into the ballot box in nearby Jim Wells County. The dead wouldn’t care,