Election Shenanigans

My HOA has a couple of Board Members who have served for an extensive period of time. The HOA is a pre-1992 Community that has never adopted CCIOA, but has adopted the responsible governance policies required by statute as required. The long-time Board members are comfortable in their roles but are opposed to allowing others to serve on the Board that they feel are not "aligned" with their values and agenda. The HOA's Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws requires five Board members, with minimum of three to conduct business. Unknown to the Membership, they continued to operate with only two members for well over six months. During that period of time, one of the two became very sick and was unable to perform his duties, essentially leaving one person in-charge.

The only requirement to serve is that the Member must be in good standing (up-to-date on dues payment.) However, they have managed relatively successfully to "load" the Board with appointed members of their choice through a number of tactics. These include delaying appointments if someone resigns if they don't believe a person interested meets their unwritten "criteria"; and failing to appoint people interested in serving, and then just prior to election appointing someone rather than have the Membership vote to fill the unexpired terms. In the past they have used the HOA's private email list to send voting endorsements with resumes of their preferred candidates to some (not all) members of the Association, while simultaneously refusing to send the resumes of other candidates as well and refusing to provide the email list so members have access to full information about candidates.