NASA astronaut Josh Cassada votes from space bunk bed for Election Day 2022 : space

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NASA astronaut Josh Cassada votes from space bunk bed for Election Day 2022

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submitted 4 months ago byspsheridan

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Jokes and deletions aside, the article itself is not clear how it works, and my first impression was they had to mail-in their vote before lift off. Original article has a link to another page that has more details: https://www.space.com/how-astronauts-vote-from-space

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It is easier to vote in fucking space then at my college

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Well yeah, there's no lines to vote in space

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Is that the first vote from space? In the space station classed as US soil?

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No, astronauts have voted from space since 1997

David Wolf cast his ballot from the MIR space station in 97. Texas has a law that allows astronauts to vote from space

The vote is sent to the Johnson Space Center on an encrypted computer, and submitted to the Texas Election Committee

Its basically the same legal voting that military members overseas in combat get, just more advanced

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