The strata legislation assumes that the election of a strata committee occurs at the AGM meeting itself, with the office holders being elected from within the committee at the strata committee meeting held immedately afterwards.
You may well call BS but the law is not what you have selectively quoted. The idea of limiting the number of nominations to the number of seats and vice versa is all well and good, but what if there are people who want to be on the committee who aren’t part of the ruling group, for instance.
At our last AGM, the rusted-on committee, hand-picked by our chair using the provision for replacing retiring members, had not faced an election in about 10 years. When one other owner tried to join, I suggested that one of the members who complained about “having to take part” and others who didn’t make it to all the meetings should withdraw to avoid the vote that they were grumbling about having to administer. This was met with sullen silence.
And how do people who are participating in the meeting remotely and therefore “in attendance” vote?
Perhaps the committee or OC could agree that an email in a specified format, received during the meeting would be accepted as a valid vote. Otherwise, you have to find a way of letting people vote or face a potential barrage of legitimate complaints about election fixing.