Shareholder voting

[Alastair Green <alastair.green@choreology.com>]

I'm heavily involved in another OASIS TC (Business Transactions), which
might have relevance to your work (XML-based coordination, guaranteed
delivery, exactly-once semantics etc). However, that is not the cause of
my enquiry.

There is a great deal of current interest in automated shareholder
voting (e.g. CREST consultation in the UK, the custodian organizations
primarily centred in New York), as a result of dissatisfaction with
levels of institutional investor participation in governance of publicly
quoted companies.

Does your TC intend to address this commercial slant on voting? I
imagine that quite a few of the issues cross over from public to private
electorates. Another way of putting the question is: do you consider
multi-question elections -- vote on propositions 1 to 23, and do you
allow amendments and other meeting-related voting procedures to be taken
into account? Do you deal with quora? ...

Alastair