Voting in space

[3] The following year, Governor George W. Bush signed a bill originally sponsored by Representative Mike Jackson, whose district included Johnson Space Center, that allowed astronauts to vote electronically.

[4] Since 2004, astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) have voted in all but one presidential election.

During the election, Johnson Space Center transmits a secure electronic ballot, and the astronauts are emailed credentials by their local county clerk.

[12] In 1971, the crew of the Soyuz 11 (Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev) broadcast their votes from the Salyut 1 space station in the election for the 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

[13][14] Three cosmonauts (Sergei Krikalev, Valery Polyakov and Alexander Volkov) onboard the Mir space station voted in the 1989 Soviet parliamentary elections "without a secret ballot" with TASS reporting they announced their choice of candidates when communicating with ground control.

Two-time space voter Kathleen Rubins [ 1 ] [ 2 ] posing in front of a " voting booth " on the International Space Station , 2020
Stamp commemorating the Soyuz 11 crew, who died during flight back to Earth in 1971