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This excerpt taken from the A DEF 14A filed Jan 19, 2010.

Broker Non-Votes

Under the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE") rules, if your broker holds your shares in its name and does not receive voting instructions from you, your broker has discretion to vote these shares on certain "routine" matters, including the ratification of the Audit and Finance Committee's appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Agilent's independent registered public accounting firm. However, on non-routine matters such as the election of directors and the approval of Agilent's Performance-Based Compensation Plan, your broker must receive voting instructions from you, as it does not have discretionary voting power for these particular items. So long as the broker has discretion to vote on at least one proposal, these "broker non-votes" are counted toward establishing a quorum. When voted on "routine"

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    matters, broker non-votes are counted toward determining the outcome of that "routine" matter.

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