Arbitrator Rejects Recall Because Print Is Too Big
Hello,
An Arbitrator rejected a Recall of a Board of a HOA because although the recall ballots were the EXACT SAME LANGUAGE (the Arbitrator's words) as that which was initially accepted in preparation for the recall vote, which initially filled ONE page with a membership signiture space at the bottom of that ONE page, the ballot was then magnified for the vote so that it could be more easily read and completed by the Members, which expanded it to FOUR pages with a membership signiture space at the bottom of the LAST (FOURTH) page of the NOW-FOUR-PAGE ballot.
The Arbitrator claimed that because the Member's signiture was NOT on the FIRST THREE pages of this NOW-FOUR-PAGE ballot, and because there was nothing to tie the first three pages to the fourth page with the signiture on it, even though the Arbitator admitted that the language was the EXACT SAME LANGUAGE as that which was initially accepted for the ballot (in which case the continuity of that language logically tied all four pages together as one document), the Arbitrator rejected ALL of the recall votes.
Does this sound like a valid reason to reject the completed and signed recall ballots?
Jim
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