From Letters Written by or on Behalf of Shoghi Effendi
The seating of delegates to the Convention, i.e., the right to decide upon the validity of the credentials of the delegates at a given Convention is vested in the outgoing National Assembly, and the right to decide who has the voting privilege is also ultimately placed in the hands of the National Spiritual Assembly....
(29 January 1925 written by Shoghi Effendi to the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States and Canada, published in “Bahá’í Administration”, p. 80) [36]
He considers that the National Spiritual Assembly has every right to examine the ballots if there is some doubt as to the election having been properly conducted. By “preservation” of the ballots is meant that they are preserved in the national files.
(14 March 1947 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to the National Spiritual Assembly of Australia and New Zealand, published in “Letters from the Guardian to Australia and New Zealand, 1923-1957” (Sydney: National Spiritual Assembly of Australia, 1970), p. 66) [37]