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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001698991-22-000019"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ACEL"
cik: "0001698991"
company_name: "Accel Entertainment, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-05-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-25T23:03:04.191902+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Accel Entertainment stockholders elect three Class III directors, ratify KPMG as auditor

## Summary
- Eden Godsoe, Kathleen Philips, and Kenneth B. Rotman elected as Class III directors for three-year terms.
- Godsoe received 50,345,870 votes for, 10,541,570 withheld; Philips 50,536,064 for, 10,351,376 withheld.
- Rotman received 60,282,297 for, 605,143 withheld; all had 14,311,675 broker non-votes.
- Ratification of KPMG LLP as independent auditor for FY2022 passed with 56,798,162 for, 1,395,725 against.
- Annual meeting held on May 5, 2022; all proposals adopted as recommended.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001698991-22-000019
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ACEL
- cik: 0001698991
- company_name: Accel Entertainment, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-05-06T23:59:59+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/1698991/000169899122000019/0001698991-22-000019-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1698991/000169899122000019/acel-20220505.htm

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