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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-112786"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GEO"
cik: "0000923796"
company_name: "GEO GROUP INC"
filed_at: "2025-05-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-22T21:45:45.752629+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# GEO Group shareholders elect all directors; Julie Myers Wood sees 23M against votes

## Summary
- All seven director nominees elected; Julie Myers Wood received 76.3M for, 22.98M against (highest dissent).
- Ratification of Grant Thornton as auditor: 112.9M for, 0.62M against, no broker non-votes.
- Say-on-pay advisory vote approved: 97.1M for, 1.78M against, 14.3M broker non-votes.
- Broker non-votes on director elections and say-on-pay totalled 14.3M shares.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-112786
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GEO
- cik: 0000923796
- company_name: GEO GROUP INC
- filed_at: 2025-05-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/923796/000119312525112786/0001193125-25-112786-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/923796/000119312525112786/d931523d8k.htm

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