White House raises petition signature threshold to 100K
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Re: White House raises petition signature threshold to 100K
#2Makes sense given the population of the USA, I always thought 25k was too low, wasn't it modelled off Sweden or something which has a much smaller population?
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#3FWIW, I highly doubt that this has anything to do with the Aaron Swartz petitions. It's more likely because of the recent petitions to build a Death Star, secede from the Union, protect the Sasquatch as an indigenous species, and (I shit you not) petitions to "stop white genocide".
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#4That took longer than I expected.
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#6Whether the threshold is 100K or 100M, nothing has happened yet as a result of a "successful" petition. Sure, the stupid petitions give them a chance to giggle at the rubes. The most reasonable petitions get essentially the same reaction, however. ["Legalize pot? I think we can guess what they were smoking when they signed that one! Hahahaha!"] As much as I wish it were otherwise, I expect the same for the current "fire the prosecutor" petition. Ortiz might be reassigned to a different state, but only as part of a promotion: she's been "playing ball". They want federal prosecutors to be tone-deaf automatons of sovereign vengeance out of any sense of proportion. This petition is proof that she is what they want. She'll probably print out the page and have it framed for her new office in New York or DC or wherever.
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#7I think this really makes sense given that in Germany we have a quorum of 50k with a much smaller population. The same thing is probably true for other smaller countries as well.
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#8It started out at 5,000 signatures. Then it went to 25k. Now it's 100k?
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#9If I was a government official and wanted to troll an entire country, I would set something like this up along with a script that behaved as follows: As soon as signatures for any petition came within 4% of threshold value I would automatically double the threshold.
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#10It started out at 5,000 signatures. Then it went to 25k. Now it's 100k?
Interesting, I didn't know they had quadrupled it back in Oct 2011: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/10/03/good-problem-have-...