Replies to post #29143 on Washington Mutual Preferred fka WAMPQ

[ptolomeo]

My broker didn't offer me the option to REJECT THE POR.

I feel there is something wrong at this side of the ocean...

I received through my broker in Spain (SelfTrade, which belongs to SelfBank) the following voting ballot:

http://www.2shared.com/document/qbksvqef/WAMPQ.html

If you open the doc, you'll see that it comes from Merryl Lynch and only has two options related with the OPT-OUT but it doesn't say anything about voting to REJECT the plan.

I didn't feel it was safe to vote through my broker and decided to send the vote per mail.

The question is, is it legal (in the voting process) to have different ballots than the original ones? Is it legal to CHANGE the original ballots options?

I think it might be a trap (to get votes from confused shareholders). Please note that here (in Spain, Germany, France, and so on) English is not our first language, thus it could be easy to misslead people from other countries and make them 'vote whatever you want'.

I would think this whole voting scam process could be challenged.

[forestflanigan]

Agree, I live in Southern California and drove to their office in El Segundo, and they told me I had to cast my ballot thru my broker.

[etzetrade]

Thanks, I called again this morning, ML gave the same answer again = send directly to Kruzman. ML = SOB, what should i do, ML said, I should send the ballot back according to the address shown on ballot which is Kruzman. I couldn't argue it anymore.

[HROLLER]

Exactly.