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Avoid Having Your Vote Thrown Out

Nobody loses a vote on purpose. Ballots are thrown out for small, fixable reasons — the wrong person signed, a form was never filed, an envelope was marked. Here is each reason, and what removes it before anyone can raise it.

Avoid Having Your Vote Thrown Out
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“About one out of every five votes was thrown out because of technicalities.”

An owner who counted votes for multiple elections at Ocean Club

The wrong person signed

Only the one person designated for your unit may cast its ballot. A co-owner, a spouse, or a relative signing instead is the most common reason a ballot is set aside.

The fix: Enter your unit number and we show you the name on the Association's Primary Occupant list. If that person should change, we email you the Association's own blank designation form to fill in yourself.

The designation was never filed

Where a unit is owned by more than one person or by a trust or a company, the Association must already hold the written designation naming who votes.

The fix: We give you the Association's own designation form with the names for you to confirm, and show you the trust or Division of Corporations record for the signer's authority. You sign and you send it, from your own email, and ask for written confirmation.

The ownership record does not match the name on the ballot

A married name, a recent sale, or a trust added to the deed makes the name on the ballot look wrong to whoever counts it.

The fix: We show you the county's own entries for your unit with the date we looked and a link straight to the county page, so you can see how your name appears and ask the management office in writing to confirm it matches their records.

A required element is missing from the ballot

An email ballot needs the designated election address, your typed unit number, your typed name as your signature, the secrecy waiver in capital letters, and your selections.

The fix: Your Voter's Guide lists every element the statute names, quoted as written, so you can check the Association's official ballot against it before you send it yourself.

Two owners voted differently

Matching ballots from one unit count once. Contradictory ballots from the same unit are both discarded.

The fix: The package goes to the designated voter for the unit, and everyone on the unit is copied, so one ballot goes out and everybody knows it.

A paper envelope was marked wrong

Nothing may be written on the inner ballot envelope, and the outer envelope must be signed and carry your unit number.

The fix: If you deliver on paper, follow the Association's envelope instructions exactly, in order.

We make the steps simple

Get Your Voter's Guide. Your unit number is the only thing you type; we show you the name on the Association's Primary Occupant list and the steps the Association requires, in order.

GET YOUR VOTER'S GUIDE

Voting closes when ballots close at the annual meeting: Monday, October 19, 2026, 6:00 PM, Ocean Tower One Meeting Room, per the Association's notice. Aim to be finished by .

The steps, in plain order

Getting your Voter's Guide takes about a minute. We put your answers on the Association's own form, email it to you to sign and send yourself, and remind you of each date.

Get Your Voter's Guide

Takes about a minute to read.

Invite one neighbour to get their Voter's Guide.

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About this site. OceanClubTower1.com is an independent information resource built and run by Ocean Tower One owners. We are not the Association, the management office, or the election monitor, and we are not affiliated with any of them. We are not lawyers, and nothing here is legal advice. We do not tell anyone how to vote or what will be counted. We do not receive, send, certify, or count ballots or forms for anyone. We share the Association's official notices word for word, with their source and date, and the Association's official notices and instructions control. For anything official, contact the management office at 305-365-0090 or adminassist@oceantowerone.com.