Patent ID: 7640182
Filing Date: 2009-12-29
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for automatically voting shares for at least two different corporations comprising: receiving by a computer preferences regarding how to vote a user's shares in all subsequent corporate votes for all of a user's holdings in the user's portfolio, wherein said user's portfolio includes shares issued by at least two different corporations; wherein said preferences include an identification of one or more organizations whose voting recommendations are to be followed when voting the user's shares in all future corporate votes for said at least two different corporations and, when more than one organization is to be followed, a user-specified weight assigned to each of said organizations; automatically completing by a computer a first proxy card to vote a user's shares in a first corporation of the at least two different corporations in accordance with the received preferences in a first corporate vote for the first corporation; automatically completing by a computer a second proxy card to vote a user's shares in a second corporation of the at least two different corporations in accordance with the received preferences in a first corporate vote for the second corporation; automatically returning by a computer a first completed proxy card to a first election authority for the first corporate vote for the first corporation; and automatically returning by a computer a second completed proxy card to a second election authority for a first corporate vote for the second corporation; wherein said first completed proxy card and said second completed proxy card are used to vote the user's shares in accordance with the received preferences.