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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In addition to attending in person, you can vote by proxy — your brokerage will send notices to vote in your brokerage account. it can be done online or by mail. The vast majority of shareholders who choose to vote do so that way, not traveling to California, or New York, or wherever the meeting is held to vote in person. There are also web streams for you to watch/listen live if you choose to do so.
EDIT: since posting this an hour ago, I just got an email through my brokerage regarding Amazon’s annual meeting. It includes a link to vote my shareholder ballot online or number to call to vote by phone, includes my control # (how they verify I’m a shareholder), date of meeting, links to notice of annual meeting and annual report, as well as a link to attend virtually.
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