What do you mean - 'If the stocks are there they will be double counted'.
And companies don't load trucks with certificates, this is 2007. I haven't seen a stock certificate for years
In one breath you say no one is getting the shares, then you say if they are there.
It is all done by electronic transfer. All you need are the shares you bought at the market recently or have been holding for some time. Failure to deliver by one means or another those shares is a criminal offence.
The dividend shares is one matter. That is an offence by the company. But the existing traded shares is another matter and that lies with the Market Makers.
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