NASA astronaut and flight engineer Kate Rubins plans to vote from the International Space Station, NASA confirmed to CNN, where she will be during the voting period.
As part of the expedition / 64/6464 crew, Rubin, with two Russian cosmonauts, will spend six months in space. Launched in October, Rubins will conduct research on “the use of laser-cooled atoms for future quantum sensors” and conduct cardiovascular experiments from the space station.
But she will also have time to vote. When she was researching the space station again, NASA said, she cast her vote from space in 2016. (During the 2016 spaceflight, she became the first person to rank DNA in space.)
How to vote from space
Astronauts registered to vote in Texas were granted the right to vote from space in 1997, when Texas legislators ruled that they could cast their ballots 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: Harris County Clark’s Office Fish uploads 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 by email to the county clerk’s office fee.
CNN For more information on how interseller voting will work in 2020, Harris has reached out to the County Clark’s Office Fees Election Division and is waiting to hear back.
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