TrueHOA

TrueHOA presents Verified Governance®

Stop defending your elections. Prove them.

Verified Governance® replaces "just trust us" with a result people can understand and verify. It is the first purpose-built standard for provable community governance.

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Unverifiable governance · the root cause

If your community is not running verifiable elections, it has an active liability generator.

More than 78 million Americans live under HOA governance, subject to board-controlled decisions on budgets, assessments, rules and leadership that directly affect their daily lives and the value of their homes.

Yet the methods used to reach those decisions date to the era of dot-matrix printers and carbon copies. Paper ballots. Email votes. Proxy chains. Room counts.

When a vote is challenged, and increasingly they are, the burden of proof falls on the people who ran the process. That means the property manager, the board, and the management company.

Trust fails. Proof doesn't.

Digital is not the same as defensible.

Turning a paper ballot into a web form does not answer the hard questions. A result is announced, the records sit with the people who ran it, and questions turn into a search for documents. Trust becomes a request.

The alternative is a result that arrives with its own evidence, where the path to the outcome is ready to review and questions have proof to meet them. That is the difference between a convenient election and one you can prove.

How verification actually works

Sealed beyond every party to the decision.

  1. The terms are locked, before voting opens

    Who may vote, how much each vote counts, what quorum requires and what appears on the ballot are all sealed before the first ballot is sent. None of it can be quietly adjusted once voting has started.

  2. Every ballot is timestamped, while voting runs

    Each ballot goes to one identified voter and is recorded with the moment it was cast. The record proves that a person voted. It never shows how they voted.

  3. The file is sealed and fingerprinted, the moment voting closes

    The roster, the ballots, the timestamps, the quorum math and the final tally are sealed into a single record and run through a standard cryptographic hash. Change one vote, one name or one timestamp, and the fingerprint comes out completely different.

  4. The fingerprint is anchored beyond reach, including ours

    The sealed record is stored on IPFS and its fingerprint is anchored to Base, a public blockchain neither TrueHOA nor the association can edit. The evidence lives somewhere no party to the decision can touch it.

You are not asked to trust that. You can verify it. Recompute the fingerprint from the record you were shown and compare it against the one filed publicly. If a single character had been altered by anyone, including us, they would not match.

Everyone in the room benefits

A provable record changes the whole room.

For property managers

When a result is challenged today, you are the record. Your inbox, your memory, your word against an angry room. A verified record answers for you, so the hardest conversation of your year becomes a link you send.

For board members

You volunteered. You did it right. And if someone alleges otherwise, your word is the only evidence you have. A verified record answers the accusation for you, in public.

For homeowners

You should not have to wonder whether your ballot arrived, whether quorum was really met, or whether the number announced at the meeting is the number that was counted. You should be able to check.

For self-managed boards

No management company required. A volunteer board can run an election that stands up on its own, and owners vote by emailed secure link with no account and no app to download.

Start with one decision

Your next election should prove itself.

$0.50 per door per month

Unlimited elections and votes, no setup fees. On 300 doors that is $1,800 a year. Your first test election is free, so you can run one and look at the audit page before deciding anything.

See it on TrueHOA.app