Naked shorting doesn&#x27;t do much to exacerbate the downside of shorting a security. Even if you have borrowed the security, you still have an unlimited downside (i.e. the stock price _can_ go to infinity).<p>Naked shorting is more of a systemic problem because you can put downward pressure on a stock even when the market is not willing to sell at the price you are pretending to sell at. It also makes it hard to keep track of voting shares and you can see many more votes than actual shares.