Jane C. Timm is a senior reporter for NBC News.
The two American astronauts stranded on the International Space Station through February said Friday they plan to vote in the November election from space. “I sent down my request for a ballot today,” one of the astronauts, Butch Wilmore, said on a call with reporters on Friday afternoon. “It’s a very important role that we play as citizen including those elections, and NASA makes it very easy for us to do that.” The other, Sunita Williams, agreed with the sentiment.
A test ballot with a unique password is always sent first. Once they vote on their live ballot, it is returned, printed, and processed with other ballots,” said Rosio Torres-Segura, a spokesperson for the county clerk, said in an email to NBC News this week. Astronauts have been voting from space since 1997, the year the Texas legislature passed a bill allowing NASA employees to vote from space.
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