Alabama: "Where's my $500?"
The Birmingham News reports: "Where is my $500?" asked Larry Banks Jr., striding up to a big blue tent outside the Ragland Municipal Complex.
The tent shaded lemonade, crackers and raffle tickets - just some of the incentives laid out to encourage the people of Ragland to show up at the polls for Tuesday's runoff election.
There was the promise of a raffle with a cash prize ranging from $50 to $1,000, depending on how many people turned out to vote. There was a 10 percent discount at the local grocery store. ...
The precinct that contains Ragland has a bit more than 1,900 registered voters. In the June 3 election, only 260 of them showed up. ...
When all the ballots had been marked and cast Tuesday evening, 519 people in the precinct had voted, Daffron said, for a turnout of more than 25 percent. -- Ragland rallies to increase voter turnout- al.com