I'm confused...
We had a slate running for the HOA several years ago and the current HOA board members refused to allow our printer access to the addresses and wanted to approve our campaign letter.......
Anyone really want to bet those sitting on the HOA and wanting to hang on to the power would mail our letter on time or approve the message?
I am not
at all familiar with the practices and / or processes of
any of the "chains", whether HGVC, Marriott, Hyatt, or any others.
That being clearly acknowledged, I am certainly very familiar with the practices and processes at numerous "independents", on one of which I sit (with increasing
reluctance rather than
tenacity as the years go by, I might add) as an elected BoD officer.
Prior to the election cycle, an invitation to submit a brief resume for Board candidacy is sent out in a (quarterly, in our case) newsletter. Any and all received resumes later
collectively and simultaneously accompany the election ballot, which is sent out simultaneously to all owners, long in advance of the annual meeting.
I'm not defending this process, just describing it, but this method certainly seems to at least ensure that any and all candidates have the exact same process (and the same equal access to all other owners) in the submission of their candidacy for election to the Board. Privacy is protected and maintained, as the manager (acting on behalf of the HOA, as a contracted management company employee), sends election related materials to each and every individual owner --- many of whom never even bother to respond or to vote anyhow. Neither the manager nor any HOA member ever shares or release any owner info to others, neither during this process nor at any other time.
I guess I don't understand your intimation that a BoD / HOA might somehow unduly influence elections (if I am interpreting your input correctly), nor why you might personally need or want to conduct a separate, personal "campaign" outside of the above described fair and objective, privacy protective and equal access process.
Am I somehow missing and / or misinterpreting something here?