Yahoo! releases correct board vote count; questions remain
Yahoo! acknowledged the error, blaming it on a tabulation error by Broadbridge. The new count shows much more disdain for several members of the board. Specifically, CEO Yang went from 85.4% support to 66.3% in the new count, Roy J. Bostock and Ronald W. Burkle went from 79.5% and 81.2% respectively to 60.4% and 62.1% respectively.
While this doesn't change anything except to show the board doesn't have the same approval from shareholders, it seems there are still some open questions. Barron's Eric Savitz brings concerns from Mithras Capital, an investment firm that owns 1.7 million Yahoo shares, regarding 200 million fewer votes in this year's vote compared to votes in the past two years.
The possible explanation is that the ballots that voted the Icahn slate before his agreement with Yahoo's board were voided and therefore not all shareholders were represented. Mithras Capital then wonders whether some members of the board wouldn't have been re-elected had these votes been counted.
Regardless, after several delays of the meeting as well as a "tabulation error," more questions are left unanswered and this whole vote leaves a really bad taste and lowers -- even further -- shareholders' confidence in Yahoo's board and management.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
8-06-2008 @ 2:37PM
Robert Byrd said...
I don't own Yahoo but I sometimes wonder if the votes are ever counted right when it comes to the reelection of sitting board members. Just goes to show you that a bunch of powerful money hungry {politician for a lack of a better word}once in power can ever be vacated. Shareholders be damned.