Dear Florida Homeowner and Condo Owners;

Election fraud seems to be the latest national sport in our country. Not only in our general election, but as well in condo and HOA elections. Obviously some board members and attorneys want to make everybody believe that the restrictions due to the Chinese Virus invalidate our laws. Believe me: That is not the case! To me it's just amazing how blatantly attorneys and board members are willing to claim that the statutes are no longer valid and they can do whatever they want! How would you feel if you get a notice saying: "Due to the Virus restrictions we can't hold our annual meeting this year -- meaning the annual elections are cancelled as well. We will hold the annual meeting next year in December according to our bylaws. The sitting board members will serve until December of next year!" If it would happen once or twice I may consider it some nonsense allowed by a dictatorial board supported by a "willing" attorney, but I have heard this story more often than I can count. To me it looks like people think that Law and Order are no longer valid until the Pandemic is over. Are we turning into a lawless country?

Oh, by the way -- just in case you haven't heard it all: Remember the fight about picture ID's required for elections? Remember, the Democrats claiming that requiring picture-ID's is racist? Personally I think it's nonsense -- and if required we wouldn't see election results being decided by courts. But now a condo association in Palm Beach in a county that heavily voted for Democrats requires picture-ID's for their annual election -- the dictatorial board trying to stay in power by making elections more complicated for the owners. In my opinion condo election provisions are anyway pretty safe since all documents have to be reserved for one year -- unlike in our general election where election officials decided to destroy ballot-envelopes before anybody could look at them.

I get the feeling that attorney Robert Rubin from the Becker Law Firm makes a great living of lawsuits involving the Boca View Condominium Association, Inc. in Boca Raton. The latest addition to a long list of costly lawsuits: A Federal Discrimination lawsuit over the rejection of a rental application of a nurse by the president. Owners who dared to criticize the board president or the CAM found themselves listed as defendants of some often weird lawsuit, much to the pleasure of attorney Robert Rubin. The attempts of owners to find out the cost of these lawsuits were plainly ignored. And the Division of Condominiums is obviously unwilling to take any action in regards to these violations of FS 718, despite the fact that FS 718.501 clearly gives them jurisdiction over record requests. The statutes clearly says that the Division "shall issue a subpoena requiring production of the requested records..." if an official record request by an owner is ignored by the association.