Inspector of Elections

From what you posted I am of the understanding that:

1) The Board never appointed an inspector
2) The Election was held

Obviously the Board dropped the ball.

Unless there is a hot topic that might be contested, I would have been realistic and asked for volunteers from the membership at the annual meeting to count the ballots.

If this was a hot topic, the board should invalidate the election due to procedural discrepancies. Then call a special meeting (and go through the expense) of doing the election over.

Then appoint an inspector as an action without a meeting and/or ask for volunteers to count the ballots from the audience.

Expecting that their isn't a hot topic on the ballot, then you just need to be realistic about the issue this time and take steps so the mistake isn't repeated.

we faced a similar thing:

Appointed a election inspector.
Two days before the election, family member died. He won't be attending meeting. So, he hastily asks another person to take over, and the board essentially says "sure, she can do it!"
Day of the meeting, that person doesn't show up.

Our rules say that the inspector can't be 'related to or have a tangible interest in' any member of the current board, or any person on the ballot (ie, no relationship with someone running for the board, or anyone on the current board).

At our meeting, the only people who showed up were the current board members, their spouses, the mother of a board member, and the caretaker/live-in assistant of an owner running for the board, a member of our road committee (and cousin to a board member) and one other member. And that member was brand new, just bought their lot this summer, and came just to see what he bought.

Luckily for us, we just figured that if the other 130 owners didn't care to come to the meeting, they probably won't care what we do at it. So we counted proxies, ballots, etc, and got it done.