If the new Convention Center is available, Buffett will poll shareholders on whether to return to a Monday annual meeting.

This promise depends on a condition: the new Omaha convention center (Qwest Center, which opened around 2003) becoming available. True: once it was available, Buffett formally asked shareholders (by a ballot, a questionnaire, or a show of hands or survey at a meeting) whether they wanted to return to a Monday meeting. Mostly true: the poll was taken, but in a slightly different form or at a slightly different time than described. Mostly false: the meeting day was settled without any shareholder poll, though Buffett mentioned shareholder preferences informally. False: the center became available and Buffett's letters or meeting records show the meeting day was decided with no poll of shareholders. If the center never became available for the meeting, the promise was not tested.

Set before the research began.

1. E1 [PDF] 2002pdf.pdf - BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. Berkshire Hathaway Inc. · 21 February 2003 Own record

   “Using the enclosed special ballot, please vote for your preference – but only if you are likely to attend in the future.”

2. E2 [PDF] 2002pdf.pdf - BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. Berkshire Hathaway Inc. · 21 February 2003 Own record

   “We will make the Saturday/Monday decision based upon a count of shareholders, not shares.”

3. E3 2003ltr.pdf Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Own record

   “Saturday won by 2 to 1. It will be a while before shareholder democracy resurfaces at Berkshire.”

Berkshire's 2002 shareholder letter, dated February 21, 2003, enclosed a special ballot and asked shareholders who were likely to attend to vote for their preference (E1). It said the Saturday/Monday decision would be made by counting shareholders, not shares (E2). The 2003 letter reported that Saturday won by 2 to 1 (E3), so the poll was held and its result published. The evidence comes only from Berkshire's own letters, but those letters contain the ballot and its results, so they show the promised poll took place. There was no deadline, so timing is not assessed.