In a news conference last month, Wilmore said he had requested his ballot. He did not say for whom he would vote. "It's a very important role we play as citizens to be included in those elections," Wilmore said.
Americans living or traveling abroad can fill out a mail-in form, so long as they are registered in a former state of residence. But for Americans in space, there's more to it than sealing and stamping an envelope.
Absentee or early voting ballots on the ISS are downloaded with a special password, filled out, and uploaded and encrypted on board. NASA satellites then beam them down to a ground terminal in White Sands, New Mexico.
In past elections, space votes have been cast in hotly contested states. U.S. astronaut Andrew R. Morgan... wanted to exercise that right from the International Space Station.
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