I think you must have misunderstood about voting, cornish. Voting in unpolitical matters is one thing, voting in general elections etc. is something way different!
Why Mainstreaming Will Win and Reform Won't
by metatron 23 Replies latest jw friends
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Skimmer
Perhaps there is an ulterior motive for allowing voting.
I recall an article about the WTBTS and voting in the _New York Times_ from back in the 1980s when Ed Koch was mayor of New York City. The WTBTS was trying to get some local real estate expansion or conversion approved by the city and faced significant opposition from the Brooklyn small property owners who faced ever increasing axes as the WTBTS removed more and more real estate assets from the tax roles. Mayor Koch said that he sympathized with the WTBTS to some extent, but as he remarked "but they don't vote", he sided with the protesting property taxpayers.
I don't recall the details, but I think that the WTBTS eventually won on the issue by using a real estate investing company, secretly run by JWs, as a front and so bypassed the local opposition.
Of course, you will never read about this in any WTBTS literature.
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peterstride
Just streamlining....I mean...just New Light coming along.
Peter Stride
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peterstride
Just streamlining....I mean...just New Light coming along.
Peter Stride
Toronto, Canada