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HP Adopts Majority Vote Standard for Electing Board of Directors

Business Wire, Jan 23, 2007

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- HP (NYSE:HPQ) (Nasdaq:HPQ) today announced that it has amended its corporate bylaws to require that, in uncontested board elections, each nominated director must receive more votes "for" his or her election than "against" to be elected.

The plurality voting standard, which provides that the nominees with the most affirmative votes are elected, will be retained for contested elections.

HP also has conformed its director resignation policy to the majority vote standard by requiring that an incumbent director who receives a greater number of votes "against" than "for" his or her election as director is required to tender his or her resignation for consideration by the board.

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