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The Watchtower, “Questions From Readers: How do Jehovah’s Witnesses view voting?”

1 November 1999pp. 28-29Source ID src-w-1999-1101-qfr-votingAccessed 19 September 2026
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The Watchtower, “Questions From Readers: How do Jehovah’s Witnesses view voting?”

1 November 1999 · pp.28-29 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania

“As to whether they will personally vote for someone running in an election, each one of Jehovah’s Witnesses makes a decision based on his Bible-trained conscience ... What he does in the polling booth is between him and his Creator.”

Current published position: voting is a matter of individual conscience, not a disassociating act. Relevant to the claim sometimes made that voting leads to disassociation.

Provenance and verification note for The Watchtower, Questions From Readers: How do Jehovah’s Witnesses view voting?

Confidence note. Raw WOL HTML fetched; wording and page markers 28-29 confirmed.

Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-w-1999-1101-qfr-voting