It is also quite permissible for a National Spiritual
Assembly to debar an individual believer from serving on a Local Spiritual
Assembly without removing his or her voting rights and they may also debar a
believer from attending the consultative part of a Nineteen Day Feast. You may
also debar a believer from voting in elections without imposing all the other
administrative sanctions involved in administrative expulsion.
- The Universal
House of Justice (From a letter dated 31 January 1972; Developing Distinctive
Baha'i Communities, NSA of USA, 1998 edition)