Four NASA astronauts requested absentee ballots

Remember those Starliner astronauts still in space? Don’t worry, they can vote.
Ahead of the Nov. 5 election, four Americans are in space who may want to vote. Fortunately for them, NASA has long had a plan to make it possible.
How NASA astronauts vote from space
From New Mexico, NASA securely transfers the astronaut’s ballot to the Mission Control Center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, which then forwards it to the county clerk responsible for casting it. To protect the vote’s integrity, the ballot is encrypted and accessible only by the astronaut and the county clerk.
Four NASA astronauts requested absentee ballots to vote from space
I got my ballot in and made sure that mine got counted,” Astronaut Butch Wilmore said Tuesday during a talk with students at Tennessee Tech University.
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