Condo Smarts: There are ways to get around a controlling proxy holder (BC)

Dear Tony: In August, we held a third special general meeting to approve a special levy to replace the piping in our 30-year-old building. Once again, an owner showed up with enough proxies (28) to defeat the special levy. She always demands a secret ballot and we have no way of controlling how she votes. We have held several information meetings with owners since and have discovered several owners instructed the proxy holder to vote in favour of the special levy; however, we have no way of verifying the results because of the secret ballots.    Read the Q&A…………………………

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