Funny. I worked in Amish areas for 28 years. I knew Amish folk, including Amish bishops. They didn't tell people how to vote and in fact encouraged voting in local, state, and national elections.

(Ebbie, those areas were Geauga County, Ohio and the area around Middlebury, Indiana. And you're right -- in or not in the world, the Amish I knew read, probably more than the "Yankees.")