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aGameOfThrones
10-25-2012, 05:33 PM
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HONOLULU (AP) — A World War II veteran whose effort to vote from his deathbed inspired thousands has died a week after casting his final ballot.

Frank Tanabe passed away peacefully Wednesday at the Honolulu home of his daughter, where he's been in hospice treatment for the past few weeks after being diagnosed with an inoperable cancer tumor in his liver. He was 93.

He volunteered for the Army from an internment camp where the U.S. government sent him as part of a policy to detain and isolate 110,000 Japanese-Americans after the start of the war with Japan. He spent time in both the Tule Lake camp in California and the Minidoka camp in Idaho.

Decades later, Tanabe explained how he felt in an interview for a documentary tribute to Japanese-American veterans.

"I wanted to do my part to prove that I was not an enemy alien, or that none of us were — that we were true Americans. And if we ever got the chance, we would do our best to serve our country. And we did," he said.

His family knows which candidates he chose, but they've decided to keep that information private.

Barbara Tanabe said it's not important who her father voted for — it's the voting itself that makes a difference. :rolleyes:



http://news.yahoo.com/wwii-vet-dies-age-93-casting-last-ballot-203523077.html

angelatc
10-25-2012, 05:39 PM
So, they've figured out a way to make it legal for dead people to vote on election day. Unfreaking real.

Sorry, but I don't think his vote should count.

Dr.3D
10-25-2012, 05:46 PM
Maybe I should vote now, who knows I might die before election day.

tsai3904
10-25-2012, 05:46 PM
Sorry, but I don't think his vote should count.

Hawaii state law says it shouldn't count.


§15-13 Death of voter prior to opening of polls. Whenever sufficient proof is shown to the clerk that an absentee voter who has returned the voter's return envelope has died prior to the opening of the polls on the date of election, the voter's ballot shall be deemed invalid and disposed of pursuant to section 11-154. The casting of any such ballot shall not invalidate the election. [L 1975, c 36, pt of §3; am L 1976, c 106, §4(6); am L 1980, c 248, §1(i); gen ch 1985]

http://capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol01_Ch0001-0042F/HRS0015/HRS_0015-0013.htm

Dr.3D
10-25-2012, 05:49 PM
Hawaii state law says it shouldn't count.



http://capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol01_Ch0001-0042F/HRS0015/HRS_0015-0013.htm
Yeah thanks... for a moment I thought perhaps I should but in my last will and testament, who I wanted to vote for.

dannno
10-25-2012, 05:53 PM
Hawaii state law says it shouldn't count.


§15-13 Death of voter prior to opening of polls. Whenever sufficient proof is shown to the clerk that an absentee voter who has returned the voter's return envelope has died prior to the opening of the polls on the date of election, the voter's ballot shall be deemed invalid and disposed of pursuant to section 11-154. The casting of any such ballot shall not invalidate the election. [L 1975, c 36, pt of §3; am L 1976, c 106, §4(6); am L 1980, c 248, §1(i); gen ch 1985]

http://capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol01_Ch0001-0042F/HRS0015/HRS_0015-0013.htm


That's a shame.

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AGRP
10-25-2012, 05:59 PM
Can I cast my vote for the next 200 or so elections? I wont be around to vote after I die.

MoneyWhereMyMouthIs2
10-25-2012, 11:56 PM
Thread title Note: You know you were thinking it.


After reading that, a better title might be Confused (and Formerly Abused) 93 Year Old Says a Lot of Dumb Shit Prior to Death.

FindLiberty
10-26-2012, 12:23 AM
Hawaii state law says it shouldn't count.
§15-13 Death of voter prior to opening of polls. Whenever sufficient proof is shown to the clerk that an absentee voter who has returned the voter's return envelope has died prior to the opening of the polls on the date of election, the voter's ballot shall be deemed invalid and disposed of pursuant to section 11-154. The casting of any such ballot shall not invalidate the election. [L 1975, c 36, pt of §3; am L 1976, c 106, §4(6); am L 1980, c 248, §1(i); gen ch 1985] http://capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol01_Ch0001-0042F/HRS0015/HRS_0015-0013.htm

These draconian rules must be waved for national security reasons since this POTUS race is just SO important. STORY WILL NOT BE CORRECTED because the MSM would be exposed as failed cub reporters and the zombie-like administration propagandists they've become.

Carehn
10-26-2012, 12:33 AM
So, they've figured out a way to make it legal for dead people to vote on election day. Unfreaking real.

Sorry, but I don't think his vote should count.

Gotta say I was thinking the same thing. They guy was probably cool and he did go through some crap in his life. but he is dead sooooo. Although the state law did make it so you could vote when he did. If I vote on election day and die before my vote is counted do they through it out??? I don't know.

Voting is stupid anyway.

John F Kennedy III
10-26-2012, 12:49 AM
The argument of to count it or not will depend on who he voted for.

James Madison
10-26-2012, 01:07 AM
Why is Hawaii such a blue state anyways?

cindy25
10-26-2012, 05:23 AM
Why is Hawaii such a blue state anyways?

it wasn't always that way; when they were admitted Hawaii was Republican, and Alaska was Democratic.

all states shift back and forth; Vermont and Maine voted Landon, and at one time there was not one Republican in Texas state legislature

Tudo
10-26-2012, 05:44 AM
yes, the "greatest" generation. The one that brought us a world war followed by the korean war then just to make sure we killed enough started the Vietnam war. How about all those fun programs like social security? Thanks for your service!

VanBummel
10-26-2012, 05:50 AM
93 years and he never got it. :(

Tudo
10-26-2012, 06:35 AM
93 years and he never got it. :(

Unfortunately most people don't :(