Josh and Kelcie Noah are making sure voting will always be a family event.
Tuesday morning, they left their downtown Minneapolis apartment and made the short walk to their polling place at Open Book on Washington Ave.
This time, Kelcie was carrying their two-year-old daughter, Eliotte, when they moved through the front door, climbed the stairs, and cast their ballots.
"This is on our way to get coffee, on our way to drop off at day care," said Josh. "There's some practicality behind it."
Kelcie took it a step further, choosing to educate her daughter about casting a vote, which is how she was brought up.
"My mom brought me to come vote with her," she said. "Made me believe it was a real important thing to do."
"It's good, get her involved in the process," said Josh. "She can't vote for over a decade-and-a-half from now, but it should be something that you, kind of, get engrained into you from a young age."
Eliotte got off to a good start, trying to grab a pen and a ballot.
Not to vote, though.
"She wanted to color, and participate," said Kelcie. "I had to hold her back a little bit from wanting to draw on the ballot herself."
Elliotte was rewarded with a red "I Voted" sticker, which she wore with pride while headed to day care.
"Gotta keep the spirit of democracy alive," said Elliotte's father, flashing a broad smile.
WCCO's Al Schoch was four years old when his family went to vote, his mother telling everyone that she had cast her presidential ballot for Richard Nixon. It was 1960. Nixon lost to John F. Kennedy.