I'm guessing someone let you know.

Anyway, while I appreciate that you volunteered to serve on the Elections Committee yourself, readers should know you were among the Get Involved Facebook folks who rushed to apply to the Elections Committee after the disaster election and resignation of the entire committee several years ago. Most of those Get Involved folks were politically active, intense supporters of the Get Involved supported board majority, and not exactly unbiased when it came to board candidates. Ransdell had said publicly that one candidate needed to not be re-elected, and was then on the committee casting motion votes when not even a lot owner in OPA. You really can't make this stuff up.

As a former committee member, one might expect you to be familiar with the OPA governning documents, especially Board Resoliution M-06, and the Maryland HOA Act as it applies to all HOA committees.

While it is operational, I did review as you had highlighted the Maryland HOA rules and review the committee procedures and the ability to go into close session and general that has been established since 1977 by the state of Maryland it is allowable to go in a close session for specific things and I believe as well as other people have in the past on the committee that going into close session for discussion on the forum questions is a valid exercise, and all those questions are typed out and prepared for review at the forum. Nothing secret or nefarious about that process.

Based on your review of the HOA Act, which of the specified reasons allowed in the Act to go into closed session do you believe allows the committee to use closed session to discuss questions for board candidates?

Not to mention, Chairman Ransdell failed to even have the committee VOTE to go into closed session, as is required by the Act.