“It is not the people who vote that count; it is the people who count the votes.”

The above statement was supposedly made by Joseph Stalin.  I don’t know whether Joseph Stalin actually said it, but that’s not the point. 

As you may or may not realize, most of the Ilikai Board of Directors will be up for re-election at the upcoming Annual Meeting in March.  According to our count, seven of the nine Board Director positions will be up for re-election (six for sure, I am not certain about one).

By the way, based on experience in other condominiums associations, you’d be surprised how easy it is to rig such elections.  Associations with lots of absentee owners appear to be particularly prone to abuse.  E.g., most condominium associations ask owners to mail in their proxies even if they plan to attend the meeting, for quorum purposes.  But, say, certain disinterested absentee owners are known to be unlikely to show up at the meeting and bother to delegate their proxies.  Do you think it is difficult to rig those proxies?  Here is an example from a condominium association in Las Vegas, that even got the FBI involved.  When you open that link, click on the video located on the right to watch a Las Vegas TV recording about this corruption probe of condominium associations.

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