As far as I understood every person who owns a stock can join the general meeting and vote about the company. How is that if somebody bought a single stock online? Apple has 15 billion shares. Even if every shareholder owned 1 million shares that would still be 15k people. How are they going to count who owns what?
edit: my question is not how they can house 15k people. i am asking how they can count the votes and make sure you bought a vote. if you bought some shares on a random trading site like [capital.com](http://capital.com) or robinhood how are you going to prove that you actually bought it? is there a vote button on robinhood?
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To directly address your edit:
>edit: my question is not how they can house 15k people. i am asking how they can count the votes and make sure you bought a vote. if you bought some shares on a random trading site like [capital.com](http://capital.com/) or robinhood how are you going to prove that you actually bought it? is there a vote button on robinhood?
Every share is tracked in a central repository. Every time you legally buy or sell a share, that is reported to the central repository, and the ownership information is updated. When you do it on something like robinhood, robinhood is handling the paperwork. When you use a personal stock broker, they handle the paperwork. If for some reason you were trying to do a completely private sale of stock, in order for the exchange to be legal, you would need to do the paperwork yourself.
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