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Though I see this is a whitehouse.gov site, I'm curious as to what counts as a legitimate signature. I'm not American, not a resident, and not in America, so wh
by pedalpete 10y ago
Though I see this is a whitehouse.gov site, I'm curious as to what counts as a legitimate signature. I'm not American, not a resident, and not in America, so what happens if I sign this petition?
Does anybody know how they figure this out? Do a bunch of signatures from people who have no rights in the US invalidate the petition?
- maxerickson 10y agoThe petition doesn't mean anything to begin with. The previous administration used them as a PR device. They aren't binding. Who knows if it is even intentional that it still works.
- zardeh 10y agoIf (and that is a potentially big if) Trump continues the Obama admin plan of responding to all petitions that have >100K signatures, it will be interesting to see what the response to 'hey you should let this young female student who was already here back in, since she poses no danger to the US'.
- nebabyte 10y ago100k+ signatures = response from trump on twitter
- somebehemoth 10y ago> PR device No. Citizens used it to petition the White House and it worked as designed until recently.
- maxerickson 10y agoWhat significant policy changes were initiated by a petition? How many got pretty unserious blow off responses?
- somebehemoth 10y agoCell phone unlocking - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_the_People_(petitioning_system)#Cell_phone_unlocking_bill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_the_People_(petitioning_sys...