Regarding voting; it is not only the right but the sacred
obligation of every member of any Baha’i administrative body, whether
permanent, or temporary like the Convention, to fully and freely exercise this
function. Abstention from voting is, as a rule, not advisable, as it implies a
shirking of responsibility which every loyal and conscientious believer should
consider it a privilege to shoulder.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated March
10, 1936 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi; ‘Dawn of a New Day’)
