---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001747079-24-000058"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BALY"
cik: "0001747079"
company_name: "Bally's Corp"
filed_at: "2024-05-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T16:23:26.106061+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Bally's shareholders elect three directors; reject smokefree policy proposal at annual meeting

## Summary
- Shareholders elected Terrence Downey, Jaymin B. Patel, and Wanda Young Wilson as directors for three-year terms.
- Ratification of Deloitte & Touche as independent auditor for 2024 approved with 30,620,768 for, 267,586 against.
- Say-on-pay advisory vote passed: 23,639,154 for, 3,819,176 against, 31,909 abstain.
- Shareholder proposal for a smokefree policy report failed: 3,145,853 for, 23,983,362 against.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001747079-24-000058
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BALY
- cik: 0001747079
- company_name: Bally's Corp
- filed_at: 2024-05-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1747079/000174707924000058/0001747079-24-000058-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1747079/000174707924000058/baly-20240516.htm

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## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: 23d33b093056334eebd5236e32532d0392595823
  claim: Bally's Corp shareholders approved Approval, on a Non-binding Advisory Basis, of the Compensation of the Company's Named Executive Officers at the 2024-05-16 meeting.
  evidence_excerpt: Proposal 3 - Approval, on a Non-binding Advisory Basis, of the Compensation of the Company's Named Executive Officers At the Annual Meeting, the vote to approve, on a non-binding advisory basis, the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers was as follows: For Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes 23,639,154 3,819,176 31,909 3,445,369
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1747079/000174707924000058/0001747079-24-000058-index.htm
- claim_id: 25ccdf001be62d09a002127e4fe4bd4c1dec20d6
  claim: Bally's Corp shareholders rejected Shareholder Proposal Regarding a Report on the Adoption of a Smokefree Policy at the 2024-05-16 meeting.
  evidence_excerpt: Proposal 4 - Shareholder Proposal Regarding a Report on the Adoption of a Smokefree Policy. At the Annual Meeting, the vote to consider a shareholder proposal regarding a report on the adoption of a smokefree policy was as follows: For Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes 3,145,853 23,983,362 361,024 3,445,369
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1747079/000174707924000058/0001747079-24-000058-index.htm
- claim_id: 2a02f1fdfb124739d1919bb5441f55a6f4ac7047
  claim: Bally's Corp shareholders approved Election of Directors at the 2024-05-16 meeting.
  evidence_excerpt: Proposal 1 - Election of Directors At the Annual Meeting, the shareholders elected Terrence Downey, Jaymin B. Patel and Wanda Young Wilson to serve as directors for a term of three years. The vote was as follows: For Withheld Broker Non-Votes Terrence Downey 20,328,022 7,162,217 3,445,369 Jaymin B. Patel 22,913,550 4,576,689 3,445,369 Wanda Young Wilson 22,911,409 4,578,830 3,445,369
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1747079/000174707924000058/0001747079-24-000058-index.htm
- claim_id: 708ce34114ec611b50ed27711fe2088bc21bbfc4
  claim: Bally's Corp shareholders approved Ratification of Appointment of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm at the 2024-05-16 meeting.
  evidence_excerpt: Proposal 2 - Ratification of the Appointment of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm At the Annual Meeting, the shareholders approved the ratification of the appointment of Deloitte & Touche, LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2024. The vote was as follows: For Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes 30,620,768 267,586 47,254 —
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1747079/000174707924000058/0001747079-24-000058-index.htm

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