In what must be the cheesiest (see the video), but most pointed political sentiment of the last twenty-four hours, two astronauts — Edward Michael Fincke and Greg Chamitoff — have cast their ballots from the International Space Station.

This is all thanks to a law passed by the Texas legislature in 1997 that sets up special provisions and procedures for astronauts who want to vote while in outer space.

The astronauts received a special email with their ballot and credentials (linking them to the ballot) which they then filled out. They email is sent back to the County Clerk in Houston to be tallied along with the rest of the votes. As it stands, they haven’t said who they voted for, but much more important is that they took the time to vote.

The pair put together this video to show that no matter how far away you are (in their case it’s 220 miles above the Earth) that voting is important enough to take extraordinary steps to do it.

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