Your friend Nathaniel owns a considerable amount of common stock in Microsoft, a computer software company. He wants to cast his votes on various issues at the annual stockholders' meeting in Seattle, but he does not have the time to travel a great distance to the meeting. Instead of attending the meeting, Nathaniel decides to register his votes by?

proxy

Explanation:

Voting by proxy requires that someone vote for you for certain reasons beyond your control(such as the distance problem that Nathaniel has in the above question). Here Nathaniel would have to delegate a representative to vote for him( a member or external) in his absence. The person voting is called a proxy and the person delegating the vote us called the principal.

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