RE: Can the Board Refrain from Pointless Sound Bites!22 Aug 2023 21:31
Gonebroke, I'm not making a profound point. I am only using 'unbiased' in the statistical sense and I'm saying that the votes cast by those who did vote is not representative (does not share the same characteristics) as the population of shareholders.
It's quite simple: 324m shares in issue. LOAM own 46m shares and the directors own 13m. Number of votes cast "against" on each resolution was between 142m and 157m out of 176m votes cast. So on any individual resolution LOAM + directors represented 37% to 41% of the "against" votes and LOAM + directors represented none of the "for" votes. I think that's a fair assumption, because it if LOAM were voting "for" on any individual resolution then the number of votes "for" on that resolution would exceed 46m.
We cannot expect that we would see the same ratio of "for" : "against" votes if the remaining 148m shares had voted.