Dell Board Bars Rule Change
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DALLAS – A special board committee of Dell has rejected a request from CEO and founder Michael Dell to change the voting rules on his buyout offer, which comes up for a vote today.The committee declined to change rules that count abstentions as “No” votes, as Dell and his partner in the deal, private-equity firm Silver Lake, requested last week.

But the committee offered to change the “record date” governing which shareholders can vote, in exchange for the buyout group’s earlier proposed 10-cent rise in the price it is offering shareholders.
The special committee also said yesterday it was willing to hold the vote today – Friday US time – as scheduled on the original offer of $13.65 a share under the original rules and the original record date.