Rubins, the only American voter who is not currently on Earth, said he would be able to vote from the International Space Station last week.
This is not the first time Rubins has cast his ballot from space: he voted in 2016 when he also did research on the space station.
Rubins, along with two Russian cosmonauts, began their mission earlier this month and will spend a total of six months in space as part of the expedition / 63 / crew of crew. Rubins will research the use of laser-cooled atoms for future quantum sensors and will conduct blood vessel experiments from the space station, according to NASA.
How to vote from space
Astronauts registered to vote in Texas got the right to vote from space in 1997, when Texas legislators ruled that they could use their voting electronically if they were on a spaceflight during the early voting period or on election day. Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. NASA’s Johnson Space Center is located in Houston, so most astronauts are located in the city and registered to vote in Harris County, where Houston is located.
The space-voting process works like this, NASA told CNN last month: Harris County Clark’s Office Fees upload secure electronic ballots to NASA’s Johnson Space Center Mission Control Center. NASA astronauts, using special credentials, access their ballots and cast their ballots, which are returned via email to the county clerk’s office fee.
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