Members Only. Only members may sign HOA petitions. Signatures by spouses not on title and by tenants are not valid.

Verifying Signatures. The association may validate signatures by comparing them against signatures that may be on file with the association or by contacting signers to verify the signatures.

Signature Privacy. There is disagreement about whether or not privacy rights exist for petition signers and whether petitions may be published to the membership.

Multiple Owners of One Unit. Any person on title to a property can sign on behalf of the property but it  counts only once. If there are ten owners on title for one unit, all of whom sign a petition, it counts as one signature not ten. Accordingly, husbands and wives (or any co-owners of a property) get only one signature on petitions and one ballot on election issues. It is the number of units (or lots) that count, not the number of owners. If co-owners of a property sign a petition, it does not invalidate the petition--it means that only one signature is counted.

One Owner of Multiple Units. If an owner of 5 properties lists all 5 properties and signs a petition, the signature counts five times, once for each property.