[alexander_busek]

Unfortunately, it is not illegal to offer monetary inducements to encourage people to vote.

You can offer to motor them to the polling places in luxury limousines.

You can feed them steak dinners on the way to the polling places.

You can allow them to participate in raffles.

Not illegal.

It is only illegal to offer them money to vote a certain way.

Regards,

[newzjunkey]

It might depend on local election law. If we’re realistic this had the effect of vote buying. They wouldn’t do it otherwise

[ApplegateRanch]

In both CA & OR, when we lived in them, starting in the 70’s, restaurants were suddenly forced to stop offering a free CUP OF COFFEE to customers for showing the waitress an “I voted” sticker: THAT was legally interpreted as offering ‘an illegal inducement to vote”!
Same applies here, in South Dakota.