‘Absentee’ Votes Cast From Space Station
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MOSCOW — Three Soviet cosmonauts aboard the orbiting space station Mir voted in the parliamentary election Sunday but without a secret ballot.
The official news agency Tass said that Alexander Volkov, Sergei Krikalev and Valery Polyakov had announced their choice of candidates during a regular communications session with ground control.
The cosmonauts’ votes were then passed to the election commission for inclusion in the final count.
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