| The selection of membership of local and national spiritual assemblies and the Universal House of Justice. All Bahá'í elections conducted by secret ballot without nomination, canvassing or any form of electioneering. |
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| The election process requires the elector to write down the names of those individuals (presently nine for local and national spiritual assemblies and the Universal House of Justice, generally one for election of delegates to the national convention) whom he feels are the most suitable for service. There is no discussion of personalities before an election. Those people with the highest number of votes assume office. Local and national assemblies elect their officers from among their own number. The election of officers is conducted as other Bahá'í elections, except that a person must receive at least five votes to be elected to a particular office. |
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| All adult Bahá'ís in good standing in a specific locality are eligible to vote for, and to be elected to, the local spiritual assembly. All adult Bahá'ís in good standing in a particular electoral unit are eligible to vote for, or to be elected as, a delegate to the national convention. Delegates to the national convention vote for the members of the national spiritual assembly, the members of which are drawn from all adult Bahá'ís in the country, and not merely from the body of the delegates. National spiritual assembly members elect the members of the Universal House of Justice from among the adult Bahá'í males of the world community. |
| [BD 77-78] |
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