US astronaut true floating voter

No American will Tuesday be such a floating voter Shane Kimbrough.

The US space agency NASA on Sunday further explains how the elections are conducted in space. Flight controllers mailed a digital ballot into space. The astronaut can fill on Election Day and encrypted e-mail back. An official in NASA's hometown Houston gets the voice inside which counts them.

Astronauts see voting as a civic duty, they want their compatriots to give a good example. ' The more we can do to make people vote, the better. If this man can vote from space, I can look at my local polling station, '' expressed astronaut Leroy Chiao message a few years ago. He was the first American who released a vote for a president from space in 2004.