Allstate 2013 Annual Report Download - page 91

If you hold Allstate common shares through the Allstate trustee will vote all unvoted shares and all unallocated
401(k) Savings Plan, your proxy card/voting instruction shares held by the plan as follows:
form for those shares will instruct the plan trustee how to • If the trustee receives instructions (through voting
vote those shares. If you received your annual meeting instruction forms or through telephonic or Internet
materials electronically, and you hold Allstate common instruction) on a timely basis for at least 50% of the
shares both through the plan and also directly as a votable allocated shares in the plan, then it will vote all
registered stockholder, the voting instructions you provide unvoted shares and unallocated shares in the same
electronically will be applied to both your plan shares and proportion and in the same manner as the shares for
your registered shares. If you return a signed proxy card/ which timely instructions have been received, unless to
voting instruction form or vote by telephone or the do so would be inconsistent with the trustee’s duties.
Internet on a timely basis, the trustee will follow your
voting instructions for all Allstate common shares • If the trustee receives instructions for less than 50% of
allocated to your plan account unless that would be the votable allocated shares, the trustee will vote all
inconsistent with the trustee’s duties. unvoted and unallocated shares in its sole discretion.
However, the trustee will not use its discretionary
If your voting instructions are not received on a timely authority to vote on adjournment of the meeting in
basis, the shares allocated to your plan account will be order to solicit further proxies.
considered ‘‘unvoted.’’ If you return a signed proxy card/
voting instruction form but do not indicate how your Plan votes receive the same high level of confidentiality
shares should be voted on a given matter, the shares as all other votes. You may not vote the shares
represented by your proxy card/voting instruction form allocated to your plan account by voting in person at the
will be voted as the Board of Directors recommends. The meeting. You must instruct The Northern Trust Company,
as trustee for the plan, how to vote your shares.
Allstate has adopted the ‘‘householding’’ procedure to your address, or request a separate copy of the proxy
approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission, materials, please contact our distribution agent,
which allows us to deliver one set of documents to a Broadridge Financial Solutions, by calling [phone]
household of stockholders instead of delivering a set to or by writing to Broadridge Householding Department, 51
each stockholder in a household, unless we have been Mercedes Way, Edgewood, NY 11717. We will promptly
instructed otherwise. This procedure is more deliver the proxy materials to you upon receipt of your
environmentally friendly and cost-effective because it request. If you hold your shares in street name, please
reduces the number of copies to be printed and mailed. contact your bank, broker, or other record holder to
Stockholders who receive proxy materials in paper form request information about householding.
will continue to receive separate proxy cards/voting If you receive more than one proxy card/voting instruction
instruction forms to vote their shares. Stockholders who form, your shares are probably registered in more than
receive the Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy one account or you may hold shares both as a registered
Materials will receive instructions on submitting their stockholder and through the Allstate 401(k) Savings Plan.
proxy cards/voting instruction form via the Internet. You should vote each proxy card/voting instruction form
If you would like to change your householding election, you receive.
request that a single copy of the proxy materials be sent
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