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For California community associations

Find an independent inspector of elections

Every California association must appoint an independent third party to run its election — Civil Code § 5110. Send one request here and the inspectors of elections listed with quoroom reply to you directly with their own terms. You compare, your board appoints, and you contract with and pay the inspector you choose. quoroom is not a party and takes nothing from it.

How it works

1 One request Association, size, meeting date, what is being voted on, and an address to reply to. The same request goes to every inspector listed with us, each one separately.
2 Quotes come straight to you Each inspector answers your address directly; the request tells them which language you wrote in. Their replies do not pass through quoroom and we do not see the prices. You get a confirmation naming who received the request.
3 The board appoints A quote is not an appointment. Your election rules say how the inspector is selected — § 5105(a)(5), usually by the board at a noticed meeting — and the appointment goes in the minutes. One inspector or three.
4 Direct contract, direct payment The engagement and the invoice are between the association and the inspector. quoroom charges nothing for the request, receives nothing from the inspector, and is not a party to the contract.

Who may serve, and who may not

Section 5110(b) names poll workers, licensed accountants and notaries as examples, but any independent third party qualifies, including a member of the association. Barred: a director, a candidate, anyone related to either, and any person, business or part of a business employed by or under contract to the association for any other paid service — which rules out the management company and the association's own accountant or attorney. No licence exists for inspectors. The test is applied association by association: whether someone is independent depends on who your directors and candidates are and whom the association already pays. Every inspector listed here has declared in writing that they practise as an independent third party and will confirm § 5110(b) to your board for your association before accepting appointment. We have not vetted them beyond that declaration, and the board applies the test itself when it appoints.

What quoroom does and does not do

We forward your request to the inspectors listed with us, each of whom receives it on identical terms. No inspector pays us to be listed or for any request, and nothing changes hands when you hire one. We do not rank or recommend them, and the list is in no particular order.

Request quotes

Six fields. Each listed inspector decides whether and when to reply; replies come to you directly, not through us. You can write in Spanish.

Inspectors price on it. An estimate is fine.

If it is set. Leave blank if not.

Inspectors reply to this address. An association or board address is best.

We keep a copy of your request on our own server and pass it only to the inspectors named in your confirmation. No mailing list, no resale. How requests are handled.

What quoroom itself offers

Paid service, from quoroom Election rules check We read your current election rules and annual disclosure against the procedural requirements in the Davis-Stirling Act, including the changes AB 2159 made in 2025 and AB 1892 makes from 2027, and send you a written list of what does not line up and which deadline each item sits behind. Fixed fee. It is a contract with quoroom only. No inspector listed here is part of quoroom, so it has no bearing on their independence under § 5110(b); the one exception is the separate practice of quoroom's founder, which does not accept appointment by an association that has engaged quoroom. To ask for a rules check, write to privacy@quoroom.org rather than in the note above, because the note goes to every listed inspector.
Free The register and the calculator Every active association has a page on the register with its election requirements worked out for its size, and the deadline calculator gives you the statutory dates from your meeting date without leaving an address.

What we do not do

We are not attorneys and this is not a law practice. A rules check tells you where your procedure departs from the statutory requirements and what the deadlines are; it is not a legal opinion, and anything contested, unusual or consequential belongs with your association's counsel. We do not vet, rank, insure or guarantee the inspectors listed here, and we do not take part in any election they run.