HOA Homefront: Navigating elections in 2020 (and beyond)

Senate Bill 323 took effect in January 2020, creating new procedural requirements for HOAs and also unintentionally creating many problems and unanswered questions. Consequently, California HOAs have many struggles to consider in their elections in 2020 and beyond.
One of the first issues with the law is that it did not create a grace period before it took effect. Since the election process under the new law takes more than 90 days to complete, what do associations do if their election is in the