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NASA astronaut Kate Rubins votes from space in the US election using the 'ISS voting booth' | TheHill - The Hill
Oct 23, 2020 44 secs

NASA astronaut Kate Rubins sent hers in through a secure electronic ballot using a makeshift voting booth on the International Space Station. .

From the International Space Station: I voted today.

— Kate Rubins pic.twitter.com/DRdjwSzXwy.

“I think it’s really important for everybody to vote,” Rubins told The Associated Press (AP) before leaving for space in October!

“If we can do it from space, then I believe folks can do it from the ground, too.” .

Yes, that’s legal — at least for residents of Texas, where many astronauts live in the vicinity of the Johnson Space Center in Houston (Yes, Houston? We hear you.) A 1997 law allows astronauts to cast their vote when in "spaceflight," which is forwarded from Mission control to the space station to the county clerk. 

Rubins is the first person to sequence DNA in space, but not the first to vote from space

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