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Technology Stocks : THQ,Inc. (THQI)
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To: wolfdog2 who wrote (12913)1/30/2000 1:43:00 PM
From: Sigmund  Read Replies (2) of 14266
 
No I was perfectly serious. A company has a right to encourage its shareholders to vote their proxy statements this is not a question of how they vote them.

Why not pay a special dividend to those who vote their shares? I can't think of any reason not to do it. It would be difficult to administer but that is a technical problem.

I believe they probably pay the brokerage firms already for handling the proxies, why not compensate the shareholder for their time and effort to fill them in and get them to a mailbox?

To take the matter one step further that probably wouldn't apply to the institutional holders but which might encourage retail investors to hold their shares where they could not be lent, there could be a drawing of the submitted proxies with a prize awarded. This might have some legal problems in certain states so it may not be feasible. But it might work since no additional purchase was required.

It wouldn't hurt for THQI to be a bit inventive about how to reduce the number of shares available for lending to shorts.
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