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Fifteen years after voting became a matter of personal conscience, the 2014 history God’s Kingdom Rules! still described Witnesses corporately as people who ‘do not vote, support political campaigns, or lobby politicians’.

Claim ID claim-doctrine-voting-still-described-as-corporate-practiceConcerns 2014Context
Context · 2014 Verified

Fifteen years after voting became a matter of personal conscience, the 2014 history God’s Kingdom Rules! still described Witnesses corporately as people who ‘do not vote, support political campaigns, or lobby politicians’. God’s Kingdom Rules!, 2014

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God’s Kingdom Rules!, “Chapter 13: Kingdom Preachers Take Their Case to Court”

2014 · p.145 · par. 34 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society

“Jehovah’s Witnesses are not prominent or influential. We do not vote, support political campaigns, or lobby politicians.”

The sentence appears in an argument about why the organisation’s legal victories are remarkable. It is the corporate description of Witnesses fifteen years after voting became a matter of personal conscience.

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Provenance and verification note

Confidence note. Chapter opened on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026. Paragraph 34 follows the page 145 marker and precedes the page 146 marker; the chapter runs pp. 134-147.

Notes. The simplified-language Watchtower of April 2016 likewise says ‘we do not vote in political elections’.

Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-chg-p-kr-2014-ch13-not-vote

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