February 18

Let them exercise the utmost vigilance so that the elections are carried out freely, universally and by secret ballot. Any form of intrigue, deception, collusion and compulsion must be stopped and is forbidden. (From a letter dated 8 March 1932, written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to a Local Spiritual Assembly, translated from the Persian; The Compilation of Compilations, vol. I, Baha’i Elections)