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Technically speaking you're not the shareholder, but the fund is. You cannot get voting rights from owning ETFs.
Well, you're a shareholder in that fund. The fund is a shareholder in the end companies.
In practice, this means Vanguard/Fidelity/Schwab/etc have people whose job it is to research and vote in shareholder meetings for the companies where the fund has significant ownership. That's a big part of what the fund's expense ratio is paying for.
The fund is a product
Many of them do, in fact, extend the ability to vote for your weighted portion to you.