Last Minute Push

Voters will go to the polls Tuesday to decide whether the city of Mobile can expand its borders.

Mobile Mayor Sam Jones unveiled the plan in August, but he was immediately met with opposition. Critics say the annexation proposal is nothing more than a power grab for tax dollars.

"He gerrymandered the lines to get our businesses but leave us out," says Chris Barbour, who lives just a few hundred feet from the Tillmans Corner businesses on the Mayor's map. Barbour lives just outside the annexation lines, and won't be allowed to vote. "He doesn't want the citizens of this area, but he wants our money," says Barbour.

Only 4,000 people are eligible to cast a ballot in Tuesday's special election, but $10 million in business tax dollars are on the line. The Mayor says annexing the businesses is necessary to provide city services to new residents.

"When municipalities annex they certainly annex the economic corridors that are adjacent to the areas they annex," said Mayor Jones, as he continued to defend his plan one day before the election.

Polls are open from 7am-7pm.

Here are the four polling locations:

Moffett:
6871 Moffett Road (formerly A Little Bit Country restaurant)

Theodore- Tillmans Corner:
5201 Washington Ave (Mt. Ararat Baptist Church)

Windmill
1206 Smithfield Road East

Dominion
1500 Snow Road (Saving Grace Lutheran Church)