Cumulative voting lets owners concentrate their votes to elect a board member — a tool minority owners can use against an entrenched board. This bill addresses (prohibits) cumulative voting in HOA elections, which affects who can win board seats.
In short: Addresses (prohibits) cumulative voting in HOA elections.
Introduced — no action Mixed
This bill bans cumulative voting in condo and planned-community director elections. Cumulative voting let a member multiply their votes by the number of open board seats and pile them all on one candidate; this practice is now prohibited.
For homeowners: It bans cumulative voting in board elections. Cumulative voting can protect minority owners by letting them concentrate their votes — losing it is a downside — but it has also been used to let developers and organized factions stack boards, so removing it isn't purely good or bad for ordinary owners. We call it Mixed.
What the bill actually does, point by point — from the Arizona Legislature’s official fact sheet.
- Associations may not allow members to cumulate their votes (multiplying votes by the number of director seats and casting the total for one candidate or spreading it among several).
- The ban does not stop an owner of multiple units or properties from casting a separate ballot for each property owned.
- The prohibition applies to both condominiums and planned communities, but timeshare plans are not affected.
- Introduces no new fees, deadlines, or numeric caps. Amends A.R.S. § 33-1250 (condominiums) and § 33-1812 (planned communities).
The A.R.S. sections this bill amends, adds, or repeals — taken from the bill text. Click one to read the current law.
Organizations and industry insiders who registered a position on this bill through the Legislature’s public Request to Speak system — simply where each stood: For, Against, or Neutral. Individual homeowners are not listed. Whether this bill helps or hurts homeowners is our own read, shown by its label above — a group’s position doesn’t set our call. Each row links to that entity’s report card and to the source at azleg.gov.