THE 2010 BOARD OF DIRECTORS ELECTION PROCESS HAS BEEN CANCELLED AND ALL BALLOTS CAST HAVE BEEN VOIDED.
HERE ARE SOME QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
What happened with the Sun City Anthem board election?
At an emergency meeting of the board on Thursday, 14 April, the board voted unanimously 5 to 0, with two abstentions for the two board candidates running for reelection, to invalidate the current election and to redo the entire election over.
What if you have already voted?
All ballots will be voided and already cast ballots will not be counted.
Is there anything that you can do to help get the word out?
While the association will be communicating with units owners on this breaking development, it might be helpful for someone to alert their neighborhood village unit owners of this action. For example, if there is in place an email tree, someone may elect to let other unit owners know to not vote because of the board’s emergency action.
Why did this happen?
There was a breakdown in the balloting process. Three potential problem areas were disclosed, some more fatal than the others.
1. The legally required disclosure statements from each candidate were not included with the ballot.
2. The ballot contains a name of a person, “Don” Forgeron, who did not register as a candidate. There is no such person as “Don” Forgeron and ballots that would be cast for “Don” would be invalid. The person who actually registered is named Dan Forgeron.
3. The candidate information statements were incomplete and not representative of the information each candidate intended to say and had previously prepared for this purpose.
Was this the fault of The Ballot Box, the contractor the association selected to handle the election process?
No. The association contracted with a company called The Ballot Box here in Henderson to handle the election process. While this company has had experience in performing elections of this type in the past, nevertheless there were some failures and printing issues that should not have occurred. However, any errors or omissions on their part should have been picked up and corrected when The Ballot Box provided the association with proofs of what was going to be mailed prior to the actual mailing of the ballots.
How could this have happened?
Adequate safeguards to prevent this from happening were either not followed or were ignored for reasons yet to be determined when printed proofs available prior to mailing were provided by The Ballot Box contractor to the Community Association Manager Caren Carrero for FINAL approval.
Were all ballots distributed by mail by The Ballot Box contractor?
No. Some unit owners, such as those who had prior plans to be away, were able to obtain ballots directly from the chairperson of the election committee.
When will the new election be held?
A new revised ballot will be mailed out by the association no later than Thursday, April 29th. The election period will end on Friday, May 14.
The ballots will be counted in the Anthem Center at Hanneman Hall beginning at 8:30 a.m. at a members meeting on Monday, 17 May.
Does the new election period conform to the State’s statutory requirements?
Yes. The newly announced election allows for 15 days AFTER the ballots are mailed to the end of the election period on May 14th. Nevada law requires a minimum of at least 15-days AFTER the date the ballots are mailed. As a result, the new mailing period conforms to the requirements of the law.