No proof of elections

Hello everyone so our board has admitted they do not document or keep track of elections. Our restrictions and amendments state that they should hold elections every year electing two people at every annual meeting and each member has a term of 3 years before being required to be re-elected. We have members of our board that have been on the board for 25 years and there's no proof of elections at all. They don't follow the cc&rs and many residents are upset. I am located in Missouri so what can I do about this election issue I have asked for proof of the elections so I would know when each board member's term is up and I was basically told they did not have that information because they weren't elected they just volunteered and have been on ever since..... Thank you for the help!

Correct the community has been suppressed and hasn't even been given copies of the actual restrictions and amendments and of course they didn't take it upon themselves to go get them so everyone has been pretty much in the dark about how this works now that this is been brought to light people do want an election. They actually just postponed our annual meeting which was supposed to take place on June 12th to sometime in September but they have not given a specific date. There will be no elections at the annual meeting either as it was not on the agenda handed out. The community wants there to be an election but the board isn't allowing it.

So you'd have to hire an attorney? There isn't a way to do this without an attorney? Filing the forms ourselves or something?

See also this sections of the Missouri Nonprofit Corporation statute, about a court removing a director and more:
https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=355.356&bid=19223&hl=

No property manager. About 200-250 homes I think.

You think? About time to learn a few things about how your association works.

Not special - they just understand that homeowners in an HOA or condo association have legal and financial relationships with every other owner.

If you don't know a pretty exact count, how do you know that the annual budget makes any sense? That assessments are reasonable for that size community? That actual income from assessments is anywhere near the projected income? (If it's not, that means a lot of your "business partners" are deadbeats who are letting the rest of you pay the bills.) In other words, it's in your best interest to know, and what you don't know can hurt you (legal and financial relationships again).

Of course, if you're on the board you'd better know exact counts or have the information readily available, otherwise you can't do your job. Which brings us back to the original question about the board taking a too casual approach to running things.

One of the big issues many of us on this web site have commented on is the lack of qualifications for board members. Basically the only qualification for serving on the board is being a homeowner, and the only qualifications for being a homeowner are having enough money and being able to fog a mirror (to put it bluntly). If you select your board members from among a bunch of apathetic and ignorant owners, is it any wonder that your boards are also apathetic and ignorant and who ignore essential tasks? It's stuff like this that have led many people to decide that they want nothing to do with community associations.

In North Carolina elections are held at the Annual Meeting if a quorum by attendance or proxy is present. If there is no quorum, the present Board remains.

Was there a quorum present at your annual meeting and no vote for elected Board members?