By CCN.com: Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg will face another symbolic vote today to oust him as chairman of the board. Facebook shareholders NorthStar Asset Management and Trillium Asset Management have long sought to remove Zuckerberg as the company’s chairman.

The vote to repeal and replace Mark Zuckerberg with someone better for Facebook’s health will take place at the annual stockholder meeting in Menlo Park, California.

Investor Group Wants Zuck Out: ”[Zuckerberg's] dual-class shareholdings give him approximately 60% of Facebook's voting shares, leaving the board, even with a lead independent director, with only a limited ability to check Mr. Zuckerberg's power.” https://t.co/qVJQxDNs49 — David Carroll 🦅 (@profcarroll) April 13, 2019

Along with other critics of Facebook’s long string of missteps and scandals, these stakeholders have lost confidence in Zuckerberg’s ability to rein in the social media giant’s privacy and fake news problems.

Facebook stock is stagnant ahead of the no-confidence vote, with a high of $183 and a low of $180, though it has spent most of 2019 recovering its losses in last winter’s global equities rout. Facebook’s stock performance last month seemed to defy gravity.

Facebook’s Controversial Dual-Class Voting Structure

“A recent SEC study found that companies that phased out their dual class structures with sunset provisions, were given a premium to their book value when compared with companies with perpetual dual class structures,” CNBC’s Leslie Picker wrote of Facebook’s controversial share structure.

Constitutional scholars have challenged Donald Trump’s claim that he can pardon himself, but there’s no doubt that Mark Zuckerberg can at Facebook.

He controls 58% of shareholder votes at Facebook, Inc., due to a not-so-unusual dual-class voting structure. Google is another company with dual-class shares. They even have their own separate stock ticker symbols, GOOG and GOOGL. As CNBC reported last year:

“355 of the companies in the Russell 3000 (11.8 percent) have a dual voting-class structure. In most cases, founders and other insiders control the votes.”

But it’s a controversial practice and has even led to some stocks – like SNAP – being excluded from certain stock indices. Amy Borrus, the Deputy Director for the Council of Institutional Investors told CNBC’s Bob Pisani:

“We believe all companies that go to the public markets should be one share, one vote.”

$SNAP dual class and non voting shares have been with us for decades. The only ones who defend the system are those on the receiving end. When will it end? — David Nelson (@davidnelsoncfa) February 23, 2018

Mark Zuckerberg Is CEO, B*tch

Today’s shareholder meeting marks the fifth consecutive year that Julie Goodridge, CEO of NorthStar Asset Management, has motioned to change Facebook’s dual-class voting structure. She told Bloomberg she’ll keep the pressure up until the company changes, but says that’s something they’re “obviously not going to do.”

Those business cards in Aaron Sorkin’s blockbuster film The Social Network that said, “I’m CEO, bitch,” were real. Zuckerberg had to keep two sets of cards and be careful to hand out the right one at meetings.

When Facebook retired the childish business cards it was seen as a step toward maturity. But Zuckerberg seems to have dropped the cards and kept the attitude and the substantive power behind it. Facebook’s critics believe sun setting dual-class shares would be a truly substantive leap toward corporate maturity.