PROXIES AGAIN!

Isn't it amazing what some people will do to retain control? Then you have to ask, "Why?" These are volunteers after all, aren't they?
Arizona has outlawed proxy voting. Might be a good idea to bring up with your legislators. Give them your HOA as an example. Harold

In my humble opinion, Proxies are a very bad idea. Our Bylaws say that one resident may collect and bring in no more than 5 proxies total. If the owner doesn't know who to vote for, he/she can check one box that says that the secretary will assign your vote. (This doesn't sound quite fair does it? The secretary decides how to allocate the unassigned votes?). Then if some of the residents duplicate the proxies, they may go door to door and coerce proxy signatures from homeowners who won't even bother to fill them out. Next, the proxy collector will fill in the blocks for the candidates that they want to plug-in, and then mail in the proxy as if the owner mailed it in to the PM. We've seen it happen. Sooner or later, I feel that proxies will be either illegal or abaondoned in favor of a secure web-based voting solution. It's going to happen sooner or later. Yes, there is always that potention for computer fraud, but paper proxies are a joke and the risk of fraud is much, much higher. Many of the large communities are using the professional services of computer companies that specilize in secure web-based voting and I can't wait until we can implement this type of plan sometime down the road. Although we have to pay the computer company a few hundred bucks to administrate the vote, we'd still have to pay the PM, to print/produce and mail the proxies. Price-wise, it's not a big difference. It's inevitable that some day, paper proxies will be a thing of the past.

Mary, there is always the option of a recall.