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Two-time space voter Kathleen Rubins [1] [2] posing in front of a "voting booth" on the International Space Station, 2020. Many people have cast votes during spaceflight. Voting from space has some inherent difficulties, as delivering paper ballots to and from a space station—as one would do for a soldier stationed overseas—would be cost ...
In space, hundreds of miles above Earth, NASA astronauts on the International Space Station are voting in the 2024 presidential election. There are four Americans currently aboard the orbiting ...
The first American to vote for president in space was Leroy Chiao in 2004 who was onboard the ISS in 2004. While American astronaut Kathleen Rubins voted on two occasions, in 2016 and 2020.
The need to vote from space was the result of longer missions — as NPR reported, the typical mission on the since-retired Space Shuttle was less than two weeks. However, nowadays astronauts can ...
Compulsory voting, also called universal civic duty voting or mandatory voting, is the requirement that registered voters participate in an election. As of January 2023, 21 countries have compulsory voting laws. [ 1 ]
Space policy is the political decision-making process for, and application of, public policy of a state (or association of states) regarding spaceflight and uses of outer space, both for civilian (scientific and commercial) and military purposes.
A year later in 1997, then-Gov. George W. Bush signed the legislature's bill into law, creating a measure within the Texas Administrative Code allowing for early voting from space, the Smithsonian ...
In a voting system that uses multiple votes (Plurality block voting), the voter can vote for any subset of the running candidates. So, a voter might vote for Alice, Bob, and Charlie, rejecting Daniel and Emily. Approval voting uses such multiple votes. In a voting system that uses a ranked vote, the voter ranks the candidates in order of ...