No, actually it is Frank Tanabe casting his vote.
Frank served in World War II, after he volunteered to join the Army, from behind barbed wire at his Tule Lake, California internment camp. He had been student at the University of Washington and was pulled out of school and interned along with 110,000 others by a presidential directive.
Noah Tanabe, his grandson, said he thinks about his grandfather every time he votes."It's hard to imagine - after his family business is torched, his family imprisoned, and denied the opportunity to finish his college education - he volunteered to serve. I don't know if I would have done the same thing, but we are all very proud of him," he said.
"I think he feels like joining the Army, going to the camp, fighting in the war, and fighting discrimination — these were all things he did so that we have this precious right to vote," she said.
He is quite ill, in hospice care, and if he passes before election day, his vote will not be counted.
