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A total of 1,294 people attended the 48th annual meeting of Ford Motor Company [NYSE: F] shareholders today at Ford’s Conference and Event Center.


Preliminary voting results indicate that a total of 1,566,162,517 shares of common stock and 70,800,728 shares of Class B stock were represented at the annual meeting in person or by proxy. These shares represent 93.4 percent of the votes that could be cast.


Each director received at least 2,533,368,197 votes, or 92.5 percent of the votes cast at the meeting (Proposal 1 in the proxy statement).


Votes on other Proposals:


Proposal 2. Relating to the ratification of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Ford Motor Company's independent public accountants for 2003.

For: 98.4 percent
Against: 1.6 percent
Abstain: 0.7 percent





Proposal 3. Relating to approval of the terms of the Company's Annual Incentive Compensation Plan.

For: 94.7 percent
Against: 5.3 percent
Abstain: 1.3 percent



Proposal 4. Relating to approval of the terms of the Company's 1998 Long-Term Incentive Compensation Plan.

For: 85.0 percent
Against: 15.0 percent
Abstain: 1.3 percent



Proposal 5. Relating to disclosure of officers’ compensation.

For: 10.4 percent
Against: 89.6 percent
Abstain: 1.6 percent



Proposal 6. Relating to the method of nominating and electing the Company's directors.

For: 8.9 percent
Against: 91.1 percent
Abstain: 1.9 percent



Proposal 7. Relating to the establishment of an independent committee of the Board of Directors to evaluate and any Ford Family conflicts of interest with shareholders.

For: 18.8 percent
Against: 81.2 percent
Abstain: 1.9 percent

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*Retired.