Company: SOJE
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0000092122-25-000032
Chunk: 110

Company: SOUTHERN CO
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 110
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 by reporting persons during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act), were filed on a timely basis, except for (1) a Form 4 for each of Christopher C. Womack and Sloane N. Drake to report the February 2024 vesting of the first tranches of 2023-2025 PRSUs and (2) a Form 4 for each of our 14 independent Directors to reflect the second quarter 2024 issuance of their annual equity grant filed on April 5, 2024, all of which were inadvertently filed late due to an administrative error.

#### 92Southern Company2025 Proxy Statement
FAQs about Voting and the Annual Meeting

The following table summarizes the Board’s voting recommendations for each proposal, the vote required for each proposal to pass and the effect of abstentions and uninstructed shares on each proposal.

| Item |     |                                                                                                                                   |     | Board          
 Recommendation |     | Voting                                               
 Standard                                             |     | Abstentions             |     | Uninstructed                             
 Shares                                   |
| 1    |     | Election of 13 Directors                                                                                                          |     | ✓FOR           |     | Majority of votes cast for each Director             |     | No effect               |     | No effect                                |
| 2    |     | Advisory vote to approve executive compensation (Say on Pay)                                                                      |     | ✓FOR           |     | Majority of votes cast                               |     | No effect               |     | No effect                                |
| 3    |     | Ratify the appointment of Deloitte & Touche as the independent registered public accounting firm for 2025                         |     | ✓FOR           |     | Majority of votes cast                               |     | No effect               |     | Discretionary voting by broker permitted |
| 4    |     | Approve an amendment to the Restated Certificate of Incorporation to reduce the supermajority vote requirement to a majority vote |     | ✓FOR           |     | At least two-thirds of issued and outstanding shares |     | Count as a vote against |     | Count as a vote against                  |
| 5-8  |     | Vote on four stockholder proposals                                                                                                |     | AGAINST        |     | Majority of votes cast                               |     | No effect               |     | No effect                                |

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