Contingent Voting Power

You vote. Your company is set up in standard form with no fancy super-voting or other catchy kinds of shares. (Although this rule would apply to any format of company voting.) But the votes are cast, and they elect...something. None of those shares are contingent upon anything else; they are legally, cogently available and ready to be cast. If they were contingent first on a vote winning this given election, then they'd be null and void, as far as counting them toward this outcome.

It's like counting chickens before they're hatched...and healthy, and taking dumps all over the place.