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Kate Rubins Just cast the mother of all mail-in ballet – she’s not even on earth and she’s still voting for herself !!! What is your excuse
The NASA astronaut voted Thursday from his post on the International Space Station, which is about 250 miles or more from our planet … so you can call this the definition of going up and down.
Like most Houston region-based astronauts, Tate votes in Texas X … and is a great way to get her absent vote from low-Earth orbit to Lone Star State.
As you can see, there is a secure polling station on the ISS … and Kate voted using a secure electronic ballot generated by the Harris County Clerk’s office fee and provided by Electrical Mission Control. Kate’s completed ballot is downlinked and returned by e-mail to the county clerk’s office fee for official recording.
Astronauts have been legally allowed to vote from space since 1997, and Kate also voted for the ISS in the 2016 election. She says if he can vote from space, people should be on the ground.
See? No excuses.
