How best to oust failing condo association board president?

Condo Board President will not let go! The tension in my building has become almost unbearable due to the Condo Board Elections that are coming up on August 17th. The current Board President has been in this position for the last 7 years and has run unopposed until now. I am running against her and she is trying to do all she can to derail the election. It has gotten somewhat personal with nasty emails going out and since there hasn’t been any consistent communication, unit owners are alarmed and confused. The crazy thing is that I can’t understand why she wants to continue with this position as she always claims she is so busy and is never home, not to mention she has not fulfilled her duties as president and the building is in disarray. With the current Condo Board we have received no annual budget, no list of expenses and projects, no Board meeting minutes, nothing for the last 2 years! She hasn’t held the other members of the board accountable to ensure this information gets out to unit owners. It has gotten to the point where another Board Member demanded she resign and hold an election (there hasn’t been an election since 2008).

I really have no desire to get involved in this mess but I feel like I have no choice or it will end up costing everyone money in the end either through a serious building repair that has been neglected or a lawsuit from the elevator that is not up to code or maybe it will be the dark stairwell that someone falls down because the elevator is broken!

Does anyone have suggestions on how to approach this? Do you think the building maybe at the point of contacting a lawyer? My state, Illinois, has recently passed some legislation that might give owners more leverage than in the past but I am not sure I want to take this route.