RE:RE:RE:Support for shareholder vote for 20 cent dividendLet say I bought the share at $1.00 and I sold it to you at $0.025. I maintain no right to claim any benefit by owning the share historically because I have transferred that right completely to you when I sell it to you. The share you purchase at $0.025 is identical to the share I bought at $1.00, because it is from me who purchased it at $1.00. A share of the company is a share of the company, you cannot unequal one share from another.
The exit dividend rule applies to all existing share. Potentially, someone can still receive a dividend after the share is sold to others as long as it is sold after the exit dividend date. However, in this case, the person who purchase the share knows in advance that the right to the last dividend is not transferred to him because he purchased it after the published exit dividend date.
Without getting advanced notice that a certain dividend right will not transferred to the new owner of the share when the new owner purchases the share, the new owner can safely assume that dividend right is his, not the previous owner.