Holding member and board meeting simultaneously

This was a first. Our director election was last week. The meeting was entirely on Zoom. The ballot count was not done in person but on Zoom. The president decided to start the board meeting agenda while the ballots were being counted. Of course that meant no director could watch the ballots being opened or counted.

Proper notice of the member meeting and the board meeting were given but the member meeting was not adjourned, they were conducted at the same time, and we couldn’t observe the ballot opening/count because we had to pay attention to the board meeting.

If you want people to attend meetings and serve on your boards, you have to be respectful of their time and to conduct member meetings in a an efficient manor. It is not abnormal for a committee to count the ballots while the meeting progresses at either in person or zoom meetings.

Board members are volunteers. Why anyone would serve on an HOA board in CA where they make volunteering as difficult as possible is baffling.

So once again, your president did whatever he wanted and the rest of you (the board, that is) did....what?

Was there a discussion before the meeting on how people could observe the ballots, perhaps have it done live (where people could attend and watch) and the counters announce each vote, as in "one vote for Terri" (obviously you won't announce who voted for who)? Or just make the member meeting live and the board meeting virtual - let people know which is which and they can decide how they'd like to attend.

If you were re-elected (or even if you weren't or decided to not to run), you can bring this up in the next resident forum at the next board meeting, but as everyone has said here, you and your neighbors have options if you want to stop this. We know how you feel, but apparently the rest of your neighbors don't feel the same way. I know it can be disheartening to watch because this can lead to something even worse happening, but sometimes that's exactly what has to happen before people wake up.

A consumer is person who purchases goods and services for personal use. As an owner in an HOA, you expect free services from the people serving on your board and want to regulate how those free services are delivered.

Where else under capitalism does that work well?

She is not 'regulating' anything. The law and the covenants do the regulating.