Voting Help

When the board calls an election, every unit that is current on assessments receives a private ballot token by email. You cast your ballot on the portal; you get an anonymous receipt; the board never sees how any individual unit voted.

Michigan law requires that owners get at least 10 days’ advance notice before an election opens (MCL 559.190). You will receive that notice by email and an in-portal notification.

A ballot token is a long random code sent to you when voting opens. Think of it like a one-time password: it lets you cast exactly one ballot for the election it was issued for.

• Keep it private. Anyone with your token can vote for you.
• It only works once — after voting, the token is spent.
• We store a cryptographic hash of the token, not the token itself. Once voting closes, we delete the hashes entirely.

If your unit has more than one owner on the deed, you can pick which owner is the designated voting representative (DVR). The DVR receives the ballot token for that unit. Any owner on the deed may set or change the DVR.

If no DVR is set, the primary owner on record casts the vote by default.

To set or change your DVR, sign in and visit your profile page.

A proxy is someone outside your unit who you’ve authorized to vote on your behalf for a specific election. Proxies are registered through the board, not self-serve. When a proxy is registered for a unit, the ballot token for that election is sent to the proxy instead of the unit’s DVR or primary owner. A proxy is valid for one election only.

After you vote, you receive a receipt page with a receipt hash. That hash proves your ballot was counted, but it does not reveal which candidate you chose or how much voting weight you had.

Your vote is weighted by your unit’s percentage of value (MCL 559.154). The tally reflects POV weight, not a one-per-unit count, unless the election is configured otherwise.

If you deleted the token email or can’t find it, contact the board through the portal messages page and the board will follow up with next steps.