secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     SOUTHERN CO (SO)
CIK:        0000092122
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2023-05-26T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000092122-23-000055
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.15
Item codes: 5.07
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Southern Co. annual meeting: all directors elected, say-on-pay approved, supermajority amendment fails
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- All 16 director nominees elected with 93.82% to 99.41% of votes cast.
- Advisory say-on-pay approved with 92.99% of votes cast; board sets future votes annually.
- Ratification of Deloitte & Touche as auditor approved with 97.60% of votes cast.
- Amendment to reduce supermajority vote requirement to majority failed (66.33% of outstanding, below required 2/3).
- Stockholder proposals on simple majority vote and Scope 3 GHG targets rejected (38.03% and 19.77% respectively).

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/92122/000009212223000055/0000092122-23-000055-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/92122/000009212223000055/so-20230524.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000092122-23-000055

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