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At 6:04pm on July 24, 2009, James McRitchie said…: Jim: Just another of those many issues most of us have missed for years. I look forward to your comment on the SEC site supporting our petition to make blank votes abstentions.

At 6:18pm on July 11, 2009, James McRitchie said…: Congratulations on winning the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) Holmes-Weatherly Award for 2009. Good to see you here on these pages.

Hopefully, efforts like shareowners.org, VoterMedia.org, Investor Suffrage Movement TransparentDemocracy, & Proxy Democracy, will really help retail shareowners and beneficial owners to get involved. I hope you will help spread the word.

I hope you will also consider sending a comment to the SEC supporting our petition to prevent blank votes by retail shareowners from automatically turning into votes for management. No, it is not the same as broker voting. Broker voting is when no proxy is delivered. The blank vote issue is when a shareowner votes at least one item but leaves others blank... all the blanks go to management.

See http://www.corpgov.net/news/news.html#BlankVotes Your involvement could really help move the initiative forward. I'd like to ensure it is at least on the table with the proxy “plumbing” issues.

Please also keep http://www.corpgov.net/news/news.html in mind when you have a quick commentary on corporate governance that you would like to get out to thousands of readers in the field.

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