The new financial regulation bill may have a provision that allows stockholders who own 1% to 5% of the company or more, will be allowed to nominate persons to be on the board of directors and such nominations would be included in the proxy for shareholders to vote on. The process is called "proxy access". Businesses are going to lobby against this because they don't like small shareholders to have this power. If you vote on stock be sure to vote against all executives of companies if they are against proxy access.
Generally, legitimate long term stockholders should have more say in who the people are that run the company and the selection of the board of directors as, even if you are a small stockholder of only a few shares! After all stockholders are OWNERS of the company.
Call your congressman and make sure how you feel about this if you are affected.
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