They way I read this quote doesn't really make sense.
If there a 100 million or so votes out there "Lurking" and they do not want to have proposal 3 pass then they don't have to vote NO....they just have to not vote at all which will count as a NO vote.
It seems as if MGT wants this to pass and they somehow think they have enough votes for YES for it to pass.
It seems that to pass a big chunk of the 100 million Lurking voters must vote.
It seems that Mgt may have made a deal with the BP that is "related" to the previous non-voters.
It appears to me that the brokers have the ability to vote the stock for our "routine" matter of increasing the authorized shares if they don't receive instructions from the beneficial owners. I'm equating "routine" to being not "significant" as discussed in the underlined text above.