Item 5.07. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

The Company held its Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the "Annual Meeting") on May 21, 2020. At the Annual Meeting, the Company's shareholders voted on the election of eight nominated directors to serve for the ensuing year, a proposal to ratify the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP to serve as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2020, and a resolution to approve, on an advisory basis, the compensation of the Company's named executive officers.

As of March 23, 2020, the record date for the Annual Meeting, there were 294,881,038 shares of the Company's common stock, 2,780,994 shares of its Series E preferred stock, and 14,543,281 shares of its Series F preferred stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote on the proposals presented at the Annual Meeting. At the Annual Meeting, all of the eight directors were elected and all of the matters submitted for approval were approved. Set forth below are the final voting results for each of the proposals submitted to a vote of the Company's shareholders at the Annual Meeting.

1. At the Annual Meeting, the Company's shareholders elected, by the vote indicated below, the following eight persons as directors of the Company, each to serve as such until the Company's annual meeting of shareholders to be held in 2021, or until his or her respective successor is duly elected and qualified:




Name                       Votes For     Votes Against    Abstentions    Broker Non-Votes
Katherine A. Cattanach   258,152,446        6,439,804         98,649          10,398,788
Jon A. Grove             254,932,956        9,650,327        107,616          10,398,788
Mary Ann King            263,138,367        1,461,162         91,370          10,398,788
James D. Klingbeil       246,842,605       17,717,711        130,583          10,398,788
Clint D. McDonnough      258,961,623        5,604,715        124,561          10,398,788
Robert A. McNamara       255,960,303        8,606,272        124,324          10,398,788
Mark R. Patterson        235,996,681       28,594,945         99,273          10,398,788
Thomas W. Toomey         249,181,241       11,519,809      3,989,849          10,398,788



2. At the Annual Meeting, the shareholders approved the proposal to ratify the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP to serve as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2020, by the votes indicated below:






 Votes For    Votes Against   Abstentions   Broker Non-Votes
236,529,487    38,463,761       96,439            N/A



3. At the Annual Meeting, the shareholders approved, on an advisory basis, the compensation of the Company's named executive officers, as disclosed in the Company's Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting pursuant to the compensation disclosure rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission, by the votes indicated below:






 Votes For    Votes Against   Abstentions   Broker Non-Votes
218,046,347    45,801,677       842,875        10,398,788

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