You are correct but it's the brokerages that CMKX and the task force are trying to prove did the misdeed of naked shorting the stock. It's interesting that some shareholders cannot get their certs after almost three months. Why? I got mine in three weeks. Maybe the brokerages have something to hide, that's what we'll find out...
You are hitting on the very crux of this whole matter. The premise is that the brokers are thieves and counterfeiters. What exactly did you buy ? I suggest that you THINK you bought shares in the company .. when all you actually bought was an electronic credit saying that you did. There are some controversial points here. But it is a FACT that the company does not know that you are a shareholder. You could have been the 'buy' side of a counterfeit transaction. And I am suggesting to you here and now that the total of all those who THINK they are shareholders plus the total of all the certs now in hand is much larger than what it is supposed to be. And the counterfeit shorts are the excess.