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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They don’t.
First you don’t have to go to the meeting to vote.
Second the vast majority of shareholders are John Does having a saving plan for their retirement at some manner of investment firm, they have shares in many many companies and don’t care about shareholders meetings. Often they only look at the investment performance and don’t know in which company they have invested or if they have shares at all, they just see “fund XXX plan YYY risk 6/10, YTD result +6%” in their mail twice a year.
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