April 2025
Your Annual General Meeting is complete. Elections for directors have been held and results announced. Your new condo board is confirmed and ready to act.
Days or weeks later it is announced that a mistake has been made. No matter how hard everyone tries, the human factor makes it impossible to avoid infrequent mistakes. Even with electronic voting and automated counting, paper proxies and ballots create room for error.
In the case of PCC 76, the meeting ended with a tie for the final two positions so both individuals were elected. Results were announced and the election results were certified. The next day, GetQuorum informed management that its moderator had made a mistake. There was a three-way tie.
If this had been identified at the time of the election, there could have been a runoff election between those who had tied.
There is no option for announced election results to be decertified. Once the chairperson announces the result of the vote, that decision is final and binding unless reversed by the court. Neither the moderator (chair of a condo meeting), a board member or any other individual has authority to decertify election results.
To avoid a miscount or other errors, results should be checked and rechecked before being announced. There is no way to redo an election for condo directors after results have been announced.
The only option for contesting condo election results is to apply to the court. This is a time consuming and costly process few are prepared to consider for election to the volunteer position of condo director.
