About This Year's Election

The election of four directors to the HOA's Board of Directors is now supposed to take place on November 18, 2025. Will a bonafide, legitimate election happen tomorrow?

This year, again, it will a surprise to homeowners (Members) who the nominees are for the Board. Only the "Voting Members" will know in advance, and most of them (all?) won't bother to inform their homeowners or ask for guidance in their votes.

The really bad news is that, again, this year massive Voter Fraud will take place on November 18, 2025. The President (Danny Trapp) and presumptive Secretary (Noel Weatherbee) will convene the 2025 Annual Meeting of Voting Members (AMVM). If it's like in past years, the President and Secretary will fail to confirm that only verified, bonafide, legitimate, duly-elected Voting Members (or Alternates) are present and that a quorum of them is present.

Each neighborhood should be represented by only one member of its Neighborhood Committee*. The duly-elected Voting Member should attend OR, in his absence, an Alternate should attend. Both should not attend.

Without a quorum of legitimate Voting Members the AMVM cannot be convened and no election of directors should occur. The AMVM should adjourn for 5-30 days. (By-Laws, Art. II, §7)

But, again, this year, just as in past years, that "pesky" little requirement in the By-Laws will be ignored, and an election will take place. Directors will be "elected" by people who are not entitled or eligible to vote. Thus, directors will not be legitimately elected.

And then those "directors" will elect officers, who themselves will not be legitimately elected. 

That officer-election is supposed to happen on November 18, 2025. But, as in past years, the election of officers of the board will likely be conducted in private after the Board Meeting. The Organizational Meeting is supposed to be the first Board Meeting after the Annual Meeting of Voting Members (AMVM).

The AMVM may start at 5:30PM. The Board Meeting is scheduled to start at 6:30PM. Thus, the Board Meeting is the first Board Meeting after the AMVM. Why can't Board members get this right?

* A (local) Neighborhood Committee (NC) is the three-member committee elected at a Neighborhood Meeting, if a quorum is present. The NC serves for one year. The NC elects one of its three members as the chairman (Voting Member). The other two are Alternates. Only when this process is followed, the neighborhood has a duly-elected Voting Member.

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