Election of Officers

It is impossible to fathom that your HOA don't hold alternating elections. i.e. two board members elected in even years and one board member elected in odd numbered years, this is providing you have three board of directions. if you have more than three, then the same formula applies Odd/even. The moral of the story is, you are always going to have a board member that can make decisions in case a snafu like this arises. Someone is not on the ball or they are just playing kick the can until the issue rectifies itself with the pending election.

Corporate law would apply.
Corporate law specifies that even though the term expires, the Directors remain until their successor is elected or appointed unless the sitting Director resigns.

I don't have time to look the actual statute up for you.

Tom,

While Let’s point is well taken, and I have no broad analysis to support my contention, I believe most HOAs are for single year terms, with annual elections.

I believe the current Board can continue to make common decisions, run the annual meeting, and conduct the election, then new team will take over. Yours is not the first time this has happened.

Follow logical path, don’t get weird, and let everyone know what is happening - your HOA will be fine.

With others and FL assuming corp. law is followed and they just continue serving, that's what's done.

But your subject line is election of officer, i.e., prez, sec'y, VP, etc. It is very common that officers serve one year.

Your narrative, though, refers to directors--board members-- and usually they serve 2 or even 3 years. What do your bylaws say about term length for officers and term length for directors, Tom?

I think it is very common to have have one year terms. Your governing docs should define how long directors serve for, you can't change it arbitrarily.