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Yes
A poll vote can be called at any time before or after a show of hands and applies to elections too.
In practice, the votes cast by normal means would have a UE value applied to them. A smart strata committee would have prepared for this and created some sort of spreadsheet, just in case a poll vote was called for.
By the way, I am intrigued by the references below to office-bearer being elected by poll votes. I thought office-bearers were elected by the committee after the y have been elected. I will look into this.
This is what section 14 of Schedule 1 of the Act says:
14 DECISIONS AT MEETINGS
(1) Simple majority vote to generally apply
A motion put to a meeting, or an election of officers of the owners corporation or members of the strata committee, is to be decided according to a majority in number of the votes cast for and against the motion with each person having one vote for each lot in respect of which the person is entitled to vote.(2) Vote of original owner who owns more than half of lots to be reduced
For the purposes of determining an election for officers of the owners corporation or members of the strata committee or appointing a strata managing agent (other than in the case of a poll ), if the total unit entitlementof lots of the original owner is not less than half of the aggregate unit entitlement, the value of the vote in respect of the lots held by the original owner is taken to be reduced by two-thirds (ignoring any fraction).
(3) Value of votes to apply for poll
If a poll is demanded by a person present and entitled to vote on a motion or for the election of officers of the owners corporation or members of the strata committee at the meeting, the motion is to be decided according to the value of the votes cast for and against the motion and the value of a vote cast by a person entitled to vote in respect of a lot is equal to the unit entitlement of that lot. However, the value of the vote of an original owner is to be calculated in the same way as for a special resolution.Note : Section 5 sets out the manner in which a special resolution is determined.
(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 The demand for a poll may be withdrawn by the person who made it.