Americans, or at least Texans, can vote even if they're away from Earth. The Texas legislature, noting most astronauts live around Houston, passed a law in 1997 allowing digital voting from space.
It so happens that both Americans currently aboard ISS voted early-- from their training facility in Russia-- but the Texas law establishes a good legal precedent. If increasing numbers of people work in space in the years ahead, they will require a way to discharge their civic duty while away.
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