Because they'd like to be less responsive to citizen concerns? 10,000,000 / 25,000 = 400 responses/yr. I'd like to believe our government could deliver slightly more than one well-considered response per day.
what is the 25k here?
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#12What happened to cause that growth is that in mid/late November, the secession petitions went viral. This was a completely new audience of Red Staters and responsible for the hockey stick growth.
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#13Has anyone seen a good answer to one of these petitions? Or a policy change?
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#14Thought I couldn't be less disappointed in the Obama administration but they don't cease to fail me.
I think the first new petition should be to require petitions to return to 25K threshold.
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#17I think the sign-up only requires an email verification step, so it's not clear how many people have actually signed up.
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#18Btw, can anyone confirm, how safe is this, against automated clicks, and paid clicks?
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#19Why exactly are they raising the signature threshold? It doesn't say.
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#20I wish there was more resolution along the x-axis; I'd really when that inflection point occurred and what triggered it. There's exponential growth, and there's literal overnight success, and this appears to be the latter. Also, generic vague whining about the government only pretending to care.
I did a quick search and it looks like it might be election related: "... eight different petitions requesting secession following the outcome of the November presidential election.
The petition for the state of North Carolina to secede from the union earned more 31,835 signatures, while South Carolina's had just over 26,000."
http://www.wcnc.com/news/local/Official-White-House-response...