VOTING WT 50 Nov 15, p.445 - 446 : Conscience matter
WT 73 Oct 15 p.627 : Not allowed to vote
"Pay Attention" 1981 p.149 : Voting can result in disfellowshipping
WT 99 Nov 1 p.28-29 : Conscience matter
"some Witnesses of Jehovah go to the polling booth and others do not... in matters of individual conscience such as this, each Christian has to make his own decision before Jehovah God."
Keep Yourselves in Gods Love (2008) p.214 : Not allowed to vote
*** w02 1 /1 p. 28 Jehovah Has Provided “Power Beyond What I s Normal” ***
[Albania 1986 when voting was not permitted].
They mentioned the case of a dear brother who was determined to remain politically neutral in an upcoming vote. Since the State controlled everything, this meant that his family would not receive any food rations. His married children and their families would all be sent to prison, although they had nothing to do with his religious beliefs. It was reported that members of this brother’s family, because of fear, killed him the night before the vote, dumped his body in a well, and later claimed that he got scared and killed himself.
*** w01 3/15 pp. 8-9 Courageous Integrity Keepers Triumph Over Nazi Persecution ***
[Germany 1936 when voting was not permitted].
The book Betrayal—GermanChurchesandtheHolocaust, edited by professor of history Robert P. Ericksen and professor of Jewish studies Susannah Heschel, explained that the. . . . Witnesses believed in political neutrality, which meant they would not vote for Hitler nor give the Hitler salute.” This, adds the same source, provoked the anger of the Nazis and put the Witnesses in harm’s way because “National Socialism would not tolerate such a refusal.”