Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-07-15
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001140361-25-025920
Chunk: 574

Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-07-15
Form: S-4/A
Chunk 574
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 (a) an executed writing by the shareholder or by his or her attorney in fact or (b) an electronic transmission sent in accordance with the Washington Business Corporation Act. An appointment of proxy is effective when a signed appointment form or an electronic transmission (or documentary evidence thereof, including verification information) is received by the person authorized to tabulate votes for the corporation. Such proxy shall be filed with the Secretary before or at the time of the meeting. Unless a longer period is expressly provided in the appointment form, a proxy shall be invalid after eleven (11) months from the date of its execution.

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#### 1.8 VOTING OF SHARES; REQUIRED VOTE.
(a) Each class or series of shares of the corporation shall have the voting powers set forth for such class or series in, or pursuant to, the Articles of Incorporation.

(b) At any meeting of shareholders at which a quorum exists, for all matters other than the election of directors, action on such matter is approved if the votes cast favoring the action exceed the votes cast opposing the action, unless a greater number of affirmative votes is required by law or by the Articles of Incorporation.

(c) At any meeting of shareholders at which quorum exists, for the election of directors, the corporation elects to be governed by RCW 23B.10.205 as set forth in this Section 1.8(c) . In any election of directors that is not a contested election, the candidates elected are those receiving a majority of votes cast. For purposes of this Section 1.8(c) , a “

#### majority of votes cast
” means that the number of votes cast “for” a director nominee must exceed the number of votes cast “against” that director nominee. The following shall not be considered votes cast for this purpose: (i) a share whose ballot is marked as withheld, (ii) a share otherwise present at the meeting but for which there is an abstention, and (iii) a share otherwise present at the meeting as to which a shareholder of record gives no authority or direction. A nominee for director in an election that is not a contested election who does not receive a majority of votes cast, but who was a director at the time of the election, shall continue to serve as a director for a term that shall terminate on the date that is the earlier of (A) ninety (90)