BY NENA GROSKIND CASTING A VOTE, COUNTING IT TWICE? SOME CONDOMINIUM OWNERS WONDER IF ASSOCIATION ELECTIONS ARE NAUGHTY OR NICE P ick up any condominium publication-including this one-or attend an industry convention, and you will almost certainly find someone writing or talking about the difficulty of finding owners willing to serve on association boards. So it was somewhat surprising to see a recent spate of articles detailing reports of fraud in condominium elections. Are there really owners who are so desperate to serve on boards that they are willing to manipulate the election results? Apparently so. The Miami Herald reported that Florida officials are investigating complaints of fraud or other election "irregularities" at 30 percent of the common interest ownership communities in that state. In Delaware, a member of an association board has been accused of tampering with 70 ballots in an attempt to sway the election of trustees, and in Pennsylvania, a jury recently convicted the chairman and secretary of a board of falsifying ballots as part of a scheme to "stack the deck" in board elections. 28 CONDOMEDIA