Again, thank you so much for your input.
I notice that the absent owners will be deemed as being in favour if they do not give notice of their disagreement with the decision within 30 days of the meeting. In our community, the minutes of the meeting are not sent out until three or four months after the meeting. How would the absent owners then stand? The other problem we have, being foreign owners, is that the president/secretary at the last meeting decided to disallow some of our proxies not because there was no signature, but because there was no visible address of the sender on the printed out proxy. I understand that this is not legal, but this year we have no way of making a proxy since there is no time to send a registrered letter from England or Scandinavia that would arrive in time for the meeting. Any thoughts?