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?
In: Economics
Unless you directly registered your shares (DRS) with a transfer agent but keep them at a Brooker you don’t own squat.
Transfer agents like Computershare for example arrange (or contact a company) the voting and if applicable invite you to come to the shareholders meeting.
Most meetings are held online and voting closes before the meeting.
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