How Many Voting Members Are There?

With this question, I am asking, "How Many Legitimate Voting Members Are There?"

I know of only one (1). Barony Place held Neighborhood Meetings (with a quorum present) in May 2024 and May 2025.

A Neighborhood Meeting can be official only if a quorum is present in-person or by proxy.

Absolutely no one has challenged me on the point of legitimate Voting Members; i.e., one who was elected by a neighborhood's (local) Neighborhood Committee.

The HOA "recognizes" others as "Voting Members", but they have not been duly-elected. Many of them have "gotten signatures", which is a method not approved in the By-Laws. Some have just stuck around for years; one inherited the position when a spouse died.

It is critical that a Voting Member be elected in compliance with the Governing Documents. A Voting Member is your legal representative and can jack up your assessment and can do other things, such as elect directors, that affect your ownership of your home.

I've been told that a past Board changed the rules years ago, but it had no authority to do so. The CC&Rs and/or the By-Laws must be amended, and that can happen only when the Voting Members approve amendments. And that can't happen, because there aren't enough legitimate, elected Voting Members to do so.

The elections of directors in November of many past years have been fraudulent. Voting has been allowed by people who were not eligible to vote. Isn't that Voter Fraud?

The Board of Directors should not delay longer in populating the (HOA's) Neighborhood Committee. This Committee is to assist all the neighborhoods in complying with the Governing Documents to elect their (local) Neighborhood Committees and their Voting Members. That Committee should have been activated in November 2025. Yet today it doesn't even have a chairperson.

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