This is on the board, for making up new requirements on the fly during an election process. Tally the results, announce the winners publicly, *then* by all means enforce requirements the now-elected board members must reach until they duly change those requirements. This holds doubly true when there is *every reason* to believe that the rule changes specifically targeted candidates the existing board didn't like; it doesn't *matter* if that was the real reason or not, it's the default and reasonable assumption anyone should make when the process of an election is changed on the fly in ways that *just so happen* to affect specific candidates. The process itself is now rightfully suspect, when it had no need to be.