Most brokers vote uninstructed shares with a company's management recommendation, which can undermine a "vote no" campaign by investors — who may already have a smaller voice because of the recent drop in retail participation.
In an interview after Mr. Daley's remarks today, Mr. Paxon said, "I have never seen in my life the press conference I just witnessed with Bill Daley playing the trial lawyer, threatening legal action to undermine this vote.
The political crisis over Egypt's draft constitution hardened on both sides on Sunday, as President Mohamed Morsi prepared to deploy the army to safeguard balloting in a planned referendum on the new charter and his opponents called for more protests and a boycott to undermine the vote.
WASHINGTON — Gen. Ray Odierno, the senior American commander in Iraq, said Tuesday that two influential Iraqi politicians now involved in blocking candidates in the parliamentary election next month had close links to Iran, which the general said was trying to undermine the vote.
WASHINGTON — In the days leading up to Iran's parliamentary elections on Friday, the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and other top officials have been crisscrossing their country to issue stern warnings against a vast Western conspiracy, driven by panic, to undermine the vote.
CAIRO — The political crisis over Egypt's draft constitution hardened on both sides on Sunday, as President Mohamed Morsi prepared to deploy the army to safeguard balloting in a planned referendum on the new charter and his opponents called for more protests and a boycott to undermine the vote.
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For many Irish voters, the specter of outside influence has grown so toxic that campaigners and lawmakers on both sides of the debate now openly worry that funding, ad campaigns and activism from U.S. groups threaten to undermine the vote.
Tiernan Brady, Head of the Equality Campaign, told news.com.au he were worried about how No supporters would work to undermine the vote: "The No side have made it very clear that in the event of a Yes victory they will try to unravel existing anti-discrimination legislation".
But far more insidious will be an all-out assault on voter registration in the name of "voter fraud," and on finding new ways to undermine the national vote, most importantly on electronic voting machines of the kind programmed by Michael Connell.
