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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-23-022766"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SMRT"
cik: "0001837014"
company_name: "SmartRent, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-05-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T22:37:11.173155+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# SmartRent elects directors and ratifies Deloitte at 2023 annual meeting

## Summary
- Directors Robert Best and Bruce Strohm elected for 3-year terms expiring 2026; each received >77M for, >12M withheld, 57.7M broker non-votes.
- Ratification of Deloitte & Touche as FY 2023 auditor approved: 147.4M for, 68k against, 171k abstain.
- Approximately 74% of outstanding shares (147.6M of 199.4M) represented at the meeting.
- No other matters were submitted for stockholder action.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-23-022766
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SMRT
- cik: 0001837014
- company_name: SmartRent, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-05-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1837014/000095017023022766/0000950170-23-022766-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1837014/000095017023022766/smrt-20230516.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  SmartRent, Inc. shareholders approved Election of Directors at the 2023-05-16 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-16
  source text: Proposal 1: Election of Directors. Each of the following directors received the affirmative vote of a plurality of the votes cast at the Annual Meeting at which a quorum was present, and were elected for a three-year term expiring at the Company’s 2026 Annual Meeting or until their respective successors are duly elected and qualified as follows: Nominee For Against Abstained/Withheld Broker Non-Votes Robert Best 77,585,243 0 12,306,152 57,738,096 Bruce Strohm 76,800,086 0 13,091,309 57,738,096
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1837014/000095017023022766/0000950170-23-022766-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  SmartRent, Inc. shareholders approved Ratification of the Selection of the Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm at the 2023-05-16 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-16
  source text: Proposal 2: Ratification of the Selection of the Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. The Company’s stockholders ratified the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2023 as follows: For Against Abstained/Withheld 147,389,844 68,211 171,436
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1837014/000095017023022766/0000950170-23-022766-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.