Tyler Perry, whose Madea franchise made him one of Hollywood’s richest stars, skipped a flight from Wyoming to Georgia on Monday night to vote in person after not receiving an absentee ballot.
“Okay, my absence ballot never came, so I went out to vote in person, so you’re going to vote, you’re going to vote, you’re going to vote,” said Perry as he sat in his car outside an unidentified polling place in a selfie video posted on Twitter Tuesday afternoon.
On Monday, Perry – who owns homes in California, Wyoming and the Bahamas but maintains his primary residence in the Atlanta area, where he built a 330-acre studio – expressed concern that he would not have a chance to vote for the outlets. .
“Is anyone else having this problem? I requested my absentee vote on December 2. They said it was sent on the 4th. I still haven’t got it! ” he reported his 6.4 million Twitter followers.
There followed a shuttle with Stacey Abrams, a voting rights activist who ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2018.
“Did you request a ballot, but didn’t receive it? Vote in person on election day! Just tell the person at the check-in table that you want to cancel your ballot and vote in person, ” she answered.
“Hey @staceyabrams, I flew home because I didn’t catch it. I’ll be there early in the morning. Very important to lose. Very important to lose! ” he tweeted back.
Mr. Perry described himself as non-partisan, but endorsed Joseph R. Biden Jr. in 2020, suggesting that he felt the need to remove President Trump because of his 5-year-old son.