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En 1950, La Tour de Garde a dit que les Témoins s’abstiennent en conscience de prendre part à la politique, ‘yes, even from voting’, et jugent inconvenant d’exercer le droit de vote, tout en admettant que là où le vote est obligatoire ils peuvent s’inscrire et entrer dans l’isoloir.

Claim ID claim-doctrine-voting-1950-improperConcerns 15 novembre 1950Déclaration explicite

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Déclaration explicite · 15 novembre 1950 Vérifié

En 1950, La Tour de Garde a dit que les Témoins s’abstiennent en conscience de prendre part à la politique, ‘yes, even from voting’, et jugent inconvenant d’exercer le droit de vote, tout en admettant que là où le vote est obligatoire ils peuvent s’inscrire et entrer dans l’isoloir. Source: The Watchtower, 15 novembre 1950

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The Watchtower, “Subjection to the Higher Powers”

15 novembre 1950 · pp.445-446 · pars. 21-24 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society

“the Christian witnesses conscientiously refrain from taking part in the politics of this world, yes, even from voting. … they consider it improper to exercise the democratic vote by which unconsecrated persons are put into worldly political offices.”

The article states the general refusal to vote, then provides for countries where voting is compulsory: Witnesses may register, go to the polls and enter the booth, and ‘it is not our responsibility to instruct them what to do with the ballot’.

Note de provenance et de vérification for The Watchtower, Subjection to the Higher Powers

Note sur la fiabilité. Article opened on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026. Paragraph 21 precedes the page 446 marker and paragraph 24 follows it; the article runs pp. 439-448. The same issue is already in the ledger as src-w-1950-1115-subjection-higher-powers for a different passage.

Corroboré par. src-chg-p-w-1999-1101-qfr-voting

Notes. The 1999 answer quotes this article’s compulsory-voting paragraph and gives its pages as 445 and 446, which matches the page markers.

Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source. src-chg-p-w-1950-1115-voting

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