Guides
How to run an election your members can check.
Society boards and staff
Running a professional society board election
Nominating committees, slates, staggered terms, member classes, and a voting window that works across time zones, with the record each step should leave.
Boards and bylaw committees
How to run a bylaw amendment vote
Amending bylaws without the result being challenged: exact text, notice, quorum and the threshold, ballot wording, effective dates, and what to file.
Anyone reading their bylaws
Association election terms, defined
Quorum, plurality, supermajority, record date, proxy, slate, instant runoff, certification and the rest, defined the way association bylaws use them.
HOA boards and community managers
How to run an HOA board election
A step-by-step run through an HOA board election: notice, the eligible owner list, candidates, ballots, quorum, the count, and the record to keep.
Election coordinators and secretaries
Nominations and candidate consent
How to run a nomination window that holds up: who may nominate, what consent means, seconders, withdrawals, and the records a challenge will ask for.
Boards considering a change of method
Ranked choice voting for board elections
What instant runoff does to a board election, when it helps, what it does not fix, and how to explain the count to members who have never used it.
Anyone who may have to defend a result
What belongs in an election audit file
The record that answers a challenged result: eligibility, nominations, ballots, the count, and the approvals behind each one. With a checklist.