I’m not sure the reasoning above is valid? This is the provision:-
“(4) Polls – A poll may be demanded immediately before or after a vote decided by a majority in number has been taken. The demand for a poll may be withdrawn by the person who made it.”
The key phrase is “…immediately before or after..”. You need to call for a poll actually when the vote is taken, and not request a blanket poll vote ahead of the meeting. So at the meeting, each time there is a vote, you need to ask for a poll. I think the owners at the meeting can vote to permit that? In any case, holding a poll will slow down the voting a lot – the strata manager has to key in the votes to a spreadsheet, and identify everyone according to their lots, and lot entitlement. If the strata manager does not have the lot entitlements available (unlikely but possible), then they may need to defer the vote to another meeting. Since you are paying the strata manager to conduct the meeting, this delay will cost the OC more for the extra time involved, and if the result is not changed, that will not make the other owners happy, nor will the extra time taken up by the meeting.
In practice, most voting is done by a show of hands, according to the lots, and if the result is contentious, and the poll might change the result, then one is called and used. But annoying the other owners and the strata manager by wasting their time and adding to the effort for no good reason is not a good idea in general…