--- title: Justin Timberlake Addresses His Voting Selfie on Fallon VIDEO description: Justin Timberlake apparently had "no idea" that taking a selfie in the voting booth could be illegal as he told Jimmy Fallon. canonical: https://time.com/4547637/justin-timberlake-on-illegal-voting-selfie/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-27T15:48:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:38:05.120Z og:title: Justin Timberlake on Voting: 'Don’t Take a Picture of Yourself' og:description: The pop star shares lessons learned from his voting experience og:url: https://time.com/4547637/justin-timberlake-on-illegal-voting-selfie/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Justin Timberlake on Voting: 'Don’t Take a Picture of Yourself' twitter:description: The pop star shares lessons learned from his voting experience twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Justin Timberlake: 'Get Out and Vote, But Don’t Take a Picture of Yourself in There' > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 27, 2016 3:48 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 27, 2016 3:48 PM UTC [Justin Timberlake](http://time.com/4547396/justin-timberlake-jimmy-fallon-ironic/) made headlines on Tuesday when he hit the voting booths in his home state of Tennessee early and [took a selfie of himself performing his civic duty for Instagram](http://time.com/4545024/justin-timberlake-tennessee-voting-selfie-violation/). Although the gesture was intended to encourage his fans to vote, a spokesman for the [Shelby County District Attorney’s office](http://time.com/4545024/justin-timberlake-tennessee-voting-selfie-violation/) in Memphis quickly informed the public that the move was “a possible violation of state election law” that would potentially result in a 30-day jail sentence, a fine of up to $50 or both. (A new Tennessee law does allow voters to use their mobile devices at polling stations for informational purposes when deciding how to vote, but it prohibits using them to record to capture photos.) The Shelby County DA later [tweeted](https://twitter.com/AmyWeirichDA/status/791039720213979137) that Timberlake wasn’t under review, but that didn’t stop JT from warning his fans not to take pictures while hitting the polls. During an appearance on _The Tonight Show_ Wednesday, Timberlake told his [BFF and “History of Rap” partner-in-crime ](http://time.com/9313/jimmy-fallon-and-justin-timberlake-perform-the-history-of-rap-on-the-tonight-show/)Jimmy Fallon that he had been unaware of the law until his fans informed him. “I went back home to Tennessee and voted and no one even know,” he told Fallon jokingly. “Get out and vote, but, uh, don’t take a picture of yourself in there. I had no idea! I was like, this is going to be great. Inspire people to vote! 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