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It sounds as if due process was not followed in the election of EC members and you may be able to challenge it on that basis. The AGM is required to first establish how many members there should be on the EC and then call for nominations.
Also, people who are standing for election may not nominate others for election (although they can nominate themselves).
If the other members were not present and there was no written self-nomination. who nominated them? If it was the other two, then their nominations were invalid
Validly elected EC members can only be removed mid-term by a special resolution at a general meeting. That would require a 75 percent vote of owners voting in person or by proxy at a general meeting.
But you could demand another General Meeting (if you can raise one quarter of the votes of all the other owners) or even pursue action at NCAT under section 153 (see below). However, an adjudicator would have to be satisfied that someone was adversely affected by this and that adherence to the Act would have resulted in a different result.
So your task would be to gather evidence that some people who wanted to be on the EC were prevented from joining and that they probably would have been elected if the provisions of the Act had been followed.
By the way, the Owners Corp is required to keep records of voting papers for EC elections for five years. It would be interesting to see who nominated whom for your last EC election.
This is what section 153 says:
153 Order invalidating resolution of owners corporation
(1) An Adjudicator may make an order invalidating any resolution of, or election held by, the persons present at a meeting of an owners corporation if the Adjudicator considers that the provisions of this Act have not been complied with in relation to the meeting.
(2) An Adjudicator may refuse to make an order under this section but only if the Adjudicator considers:
(a) that the failure to comply with the provisions of this Act did not adversely affect any person, and
(b) that compliance with the provisions of this Act would not have resulted in a failure to pass the resolution or have affected the result of the election.
(3) An application for an order under this section may be made only by an owner or first mortgagee of a lot.