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I don’t remember they had such a vote.
To be fair, it’s not unusual in a small scheme for the letter of the law not to be followed. It’s often just a case of sayign”ok, who wants to be on the committee?” The problem here is that they have denied you the right to nominate yourself and there is absolutely nothing that I can find in strata law that allowes them to do that.
I think a quick call to your strata manager offering him the option to fix the situation, otherwise you will immediately (and there is a time limit on these things) make an application to Fair Trading to have the whole election re-run art another general meeting and, by the way, he should wear any costs becasue it’s his error and no one else’s.
Also, as a genreal rule, make sure all the blame gets sheeted back to the strata manager for having advised the committee badly. He is dispensible – but you have to live with your neighbours.