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Offline Harlax

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Astronaut makes voting history
« on: November 02, 2004, 06:00:21 pm »
Now here's an absentee ballot!

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) -- With a quick computer key stroke, space station astronaut Leroy Chiao became the first American to vote for president from space, casting an encrypted ballot via e-mail and urging fellow countrymen to go to the polls Tuesday.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/11/02/voting.from.space.ap/index.html

The way this election is shaping up its surprising that neither party sent a challenger or lawyer to "observe" this voting location.   ;)
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