---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-23-081503"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AERG"
cik: "0000879911"
company_name: "APPLIED ENERGETICS, INC."
filed_at: "2023-10-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-09T06:27:31.183854+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Applied Energetics stockholders elect all five director nominees and ratify auditor RBSM LLP

## Summary
- All five director nominees elected: Quarles (3yr), Adamczyk (3yr), O'Hara (3yr), Barcklow (2yr), Schultz (1yr); 94.6M-94.7M votes for each.
- Ratification of RBSM LLP as independent auditor for FY2023 passed: 138,686,227 for, 253,535 against, 47,161 abstain.
- Approximately 65.9% of outstanding shares (138,986,923) were represented at the October 26, 2023 annual meeting.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-23-081503
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AERG
- cik: 0000879911
- company_name: APPLIED ENERGETICS, INC.
- filed_at: 2023-10-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/879911/000121390023081503/0001213900-23-081503-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/879911/000121390023081503/ea187437-8k_applied.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  APPLIED ENERGETICS, INC. shareholders approved Election of directors at the 2023-10-26 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-10-26
  source text: Set forth below are the final voting results for the proposals voted on at the meeting.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/879911/000121390023081503/0001213900-23-081503-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  APPLIED ENERGETICS, INC. shareholders approved To ratify the appointment of RBSM LLP as the independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2023. at the 2023-10-26 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-10-26
  source text: To ratify the appointment of RBSM LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/879911/000121390023081503/0001213900-23-081503-index.htm

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