Generally any casually appointed directors are required to be...

Generally any casually appointed directors are required to be ratified at the next AGM. Whether the timing would allow this to be circumvented is the question.

Also with all the various proxy forms being sent out I am not sure whether they are all being lodged directly with the share registry/EGO office or being lodged with ERM parties before being passed on. I encountered such a move by disgruntled shareholders a few years ago where proxies were lodged with a third party and the existing Board was able to declare all those shares as void because they had not been sent directly to the company/registry. I have lodged my votes directly with EGO.