EX-99.77C VOTES 2 rbb77c.txt ITEM 77C: SHAREHOLDER MEETING RESULTS A special meeting of shareholders of the Company was held on June 19, 2012 to approve: (i) the election of the full Board of Directors of the Company, and (ii) to ratify the selection of the Company's independent registered public accounting firms, including Ernst & Young LLP, which serves as the independent registered public accounting firm of the Fund. Company shareholders of record on April 20, 2012 (the "Record Date") were eligible to vote at the meeting. As of the Record Date, the number of shares of the Company that were issued and outstanding were 1,111,488,316.856 of which 96,003,836.877 shares represented issued and outstanding shares of the Company entitled to vote on the ratification of the selection of Ernst & Young LLP as an independent registered public accounting firm of the Company. A plurality of the votes cast at the meeting approved the election of each Director nominee by the following votes: Name of Candidate Number of Votes For Number of Votes Withheld Julian A. Brodsky 951,204,611 28,357,564 Robert Sablowsky 965,615,964 13,946,212 Jay F. Nusblatt 966,251,189 13,310,986 J. Richard Carnall 965,886,571 13,675,604 Nicholas A. Giodano 966,276,053 13,286,123 Arnold M. Reichman 966,229,818 13,332,358 Robert A. Straniere 966,003,754 13,558,422 Gregory P. Chandler 966,628,811 12,933,365 With respect to the ratification of the selection of Ernst & Young LLP as an independent registered public accounting firm for the Company for the fiscal year ending August 31, 2012, a majority of the votes cast at the meeting that were eligible to vote on this proposal approved the proposal as follows: To ratify the selection of Ernst & Young LLP as the independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending August 31, 2012. Number of Votes Number of Votes For the Resolution Against the Resolution Abstained 68,038,323 352,417 797,699