Posting Election Results

Our board is conflicted as to how to properly post the results our recent election for the 2010 BOD. Should we list all the candidates and how many votes they each received (some of which didn't get any votes) OR do we just post only the names of those receiving the most votes and who are on the new BOD? Thank you.

We only post the winning directors' names and not the vote count.

Nancy,

Our assn only announces the winners. However, if the BOD gets enough (a majority)complaints they can do as Anna's assn does. Otherwise, why embarrass anyone by posting vote tallies? Any candidate who is interested in knowing how many votes he/she received can just ask the mgr or a board member.

Thanks to you and everyone else for their input on this matter. I really didn't want to include the vote tally so as not to make those with no votes feel bad but one other person on the board felt we should. I like you idea about adding "detailed results are available upon written request" and plan to suggest it to the other board members.
Thanks again.

I think, normally, you would have appointed some sort of "inspector of elections," who verifies the results, so actual counts wouldn't be important ... are you allowed to do your actual BOD elections via mail? We can do everything BUT this by mail.

Oh if we could all be so fortunate as to have your problem!

My association had over 100 units but most owners were young, active, working professionals who would be willing to send in their proxy naming the BoD as their proxy but never show up and nominate themselves or be nominated.

Every single year I lived there the election went with the attorney (who was running the meeting) saying "All in favor of closing the election and directing the secretary to cast a unanimous vote electing X and Y to the two open position on the Board of Directors say aye. AYE. Opposed say Nay. ... The motion carries, congratulations X and Y!"

It was always a scramble to get the as many candidates as we had openings. Perhaps because by and large people were happy with things and didn't feel like they needed to be involved particularly in light of their personal schedules. A shame really.

Mary,

I wasn't implying that there was something improper about vote by acclamation. If you've got the same number of candidates as positions it would be quite pointless to make everyone fill out their ballots and waste time counting them.

My lament was that was how every election went. People would be all excited about making nominations but once we had the same number of candidates as seats the room would fall silent. Nobody wanted to nominate that +1 candidate that would have caused there to be an election where people had to choose.

Mary,

Nope... there are over 120 units in this particular association. We'd get an average of 40-50 owners present in person for the annual with over 75% by proxy.

You made an interesting point. We kind of had a neighborhood within the association. When I think about it, four out of the five board members were from the same two buildings that backed up to each other. It was these two buildings where the owners went above and beyond to make their common areas look good, gardens maintained way beyond landscaper minimum, etc. Not that the other units were neglected mind you, but most of the other folks were content to let the association fee take care of all the work.

It could well be that when it came time for nominations only people in the buildings that seemed to care the most would make nominations. Then when it came time to vote nobody wanted to run against the neighbor.

I'd have to go back through my records to see where the nominators and nominees lived. I bet they mostly came from these two buildings.