It is very surprising that the voting and tabulation of the most awaited shareholder meeting was screwed up. I am aware that a third party did this job. How can a truncation error occur just at 8 digits? Shouldn't they have known that there are more than a billion shares outstanding and so the width should have been at least 10 digits.
Maybe now, the board will wake up.
Looks like Icahn had a better than expected chance of getting more seats on the board if he had
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Looks like the joy of winning just lasted for the weekend.
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The new results are out
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It is very surprising that the voting and tabulation of the most awaited shareholder meeting was screwed up. I am aware that a third party did this job. How can a truncation error occur just at 8 digits? Shouldn't they have known that there are more than a billion shares outstanding and so the width should have been at least 10 digits.
Maybe now, the board will wake up.
Looks like Icahn had a better than expected chance of getting more seats on the board if he had