Sentence examples for proxy ballot from inspiring English sources
Many will not vote — receiving a proxy ballot in the mail and just throwing it out.
On Wednesday, the S.E.C. said its proxy ballot must include the resolution, even though Siebel argued that it was based on false and misleading statements.
As the biggest shareholder, you request that your name be included on the proxy ballot for the next election to the board.
Under the rules, shareholders who collectively own 3 percent of a company's stock for at least three years will be allowed to add their nominees' names to the company's annual proxy ballot.
The 3-2 vote allows groups that own at least 3 percent of a company's stock to put their nominees for board seats on the annual proxy ballot sent to shareholders.
I could cast my wife's proxy ballot in the waterschapsverkiezingen, which choose the boards that run the country's dikes and canals, but not in the provincial-assembly elections, because I was not eligible to vote in them myself.
The bill would revamp governance of public companies, empowering shareholders to have advisory votes on executive pay and to nominate directors through company-issued proxy ballots.
Both appealed to the Securities and Exchange Commission to prevent the pension fund's resolution from appearing on their proxy ballots and being voted on by shareholders.
Corporate governance activists continue to press for regulations that would make it easier for shareholders to put their own board nominees on proxy ballots.
Giving shareholders a way to nominate their own slates of directors using the proxy ballots that companies mail to shareholders would be similarly unnerving for boards that customarily designate their own successors, with little input or opposition from stockholders.
INNOCENT CHUKWUMA, a visiting Nigerian and unofficial election observer, gravely ticks off his worries about the British electoral system: postal and proxy ballots are insecure, and why are voters (outside Northern Ireland) not required to show identification?
