The two American astronauts stuck on the International Space Station through February will still be able to cast their ballots while in orbit.
  • @aseriesoftubes
    33•5 days ago

    In Texas, it’s easier to vote by mail if you’re in fucking space than if you’re in a black ZIP code.

    • @[email protected]English
      4•4 days ago

      Uh oh, do they have to vote through Huston?

      If so, there might have a … problem.

      I’ll see myself out.

  • @[email protected]
    24•5 days ago

    Maybe Trump will promise to go get them. Maybe he will go up in space himself and we can just leave him up there

    • @cm0002
      19•5 days ago

      Well, based on an earlier thread, it takes a LOT less fuel to launch someone out of the solar system than into the sun, so we could always do that

  • @[email protected]
    16•5 days ago

    Y’know thry always make a big media event about the polls opening at midnight in some podunk New England town that does a symbolic “first ballot of the nation”. Might be fun to make a similar scene for the ISS.

    “The off-planet vote is breaking strongly for Harris despite RFK’s residence far outside Earth’s gravitational pull.”

  • @ShittyBeatlesFCPresEnglish
    11•5 days ago

    For Robert Kennedy, one assumes, since they had to learn the Earth is flat while rehearsing for the “mission.”

    /s The earth is obviously a dodecahedron. Otherwise, water would reflect things like a funhouse mirror.

  • @mkwt
    9•4 days ago

    This is the only way to legally vote by remote electronics in Texas. Must be registered in Harris County. And must be voting from outer space.

    • @[email protected]
      3•5 days ago

      That’s really interesting. I wonder how voting works (or doesn’t) for US researchers in remote parts of the world, like McMurdo station?

  • @takeda
    4•5 days ago

    I hope the mailman won’t have any problems returning.