Tom, you make me chuckle. The Committee went into closed session before even asking association members to submit questions.  How could the committee discuss questions from association members that the committee did not have? 

and the three questions that are asked of all candidates that they have to respond to and then those answers are printed on the candidate form sheets that are mailed to every HOA member and there’s only three questions and it’s the same three questions for all the candidates that’s what’s published. 

Gosh, thanks for that breaking news. How, pray tell, could the answers to questions be printed and mailed with the ballots if the candidates were not given the questions?

The foreign questions are kept secret until the day of the forum to ensure that somebody doesn’t gain the system as a candidate and come up with some crazy stuff you know beforehand it’s the seat spontaneity. It’s the honesty of answering a question reacting to the audience .. 

 I love it.

From my perspective, I am not particularly interested in how a candidate responds to "secret" questions. First of all, no board members should be casting votes on any issue without doing the proper research on the issue at hand. Seat-of-the-pants board decisions are not what association members should expect.

That said, spontaneous questions can indicate how candidates think on their feet - even if they might say they cannot answer without some research.

Finallly, only half of association members vote, posibly less. I suspect the vast majority of those who vote cast their vote based on the material (written and image ), provided by each candidate in the election package.