Electronic voting at Annual General Meeting with no form.

At a recent Extraordinary General Meeting of the Owners Corporation of our Sydney strata of 42 apartments, a motion was ‘carried’ and electronic voting was approved for our next General Meeting as is required. The next meeting happens to be our Annual General Meeting and we now all have the agenda.

What was NOT in the mailing, however, was an electronic voting form which we’re all used to now, and some of us were expecting, indeed hoping for. When questioned, our strata manager said ‘strata managers haven’t been including the forms or facilitating electronic voting at AGMs because it makes annual strata committee elections’ problematical.

We smell a rat. There’s a contentious issue on the agenda which I won’t go into. Suffice to say, certain owners have been campaigning harder than ScoMo and Shorty and would like to see who votes in favour, and especially against, a special resolution for their own extremely controversial renovations.

Is the strata manager within the rules not including the electronic voting form to discourage electronic voting, even though it was approved as is required?

Is he correct asserting ‘strata managers are not sending out electronic voting forms for the AGM’? (Which to me does sound shifty.)

Can we just use an old form or make up our own for our votes to be counted?

I hope someone finds this interesting and can help 🙂