what a poor piece of journalism !!!
by scrap what they meant- it has been archived, and signatures are being investigated to make sure no mass signature machines were used and each signature is genuine.
it has received the highest number of signatures ever received for any petition and is a record.
it is based on a bill that is being brought out by congressmen to formally designate Pakistan a State sponsor of Terrorism
the petition and bill except for being on the same topic , has no other relation
the petition however requires the highest chair in the country to simply comment on it
A petition has no legal after effects
it is just a measure to understand the raging topics that concerns American Citizens, a populist tool, and very very crucial before elections !!!
"Congressman Ted Poe and Dana Rohrabacher introduced a bill in the US House of Representative, seeking to designate Pakistan as a State Sponsor of Terrorism.
It met the threshold of 100,000 signatures in less than a week. With various groups both inside and outside the US actively campaigning on the social media for people to support the petition, the signature count increased at a fast pace, sometimes more than 100,000 signatures in less than 24 hours.
In the process, it became the first-ever petition to cross half a million mark. A day after it was closed for signature, the final count as of now stands at 665,769 signatures. "
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Another possibility could be that the petition was flooded with signatures. And since the petition had already reached the mandatory threshold of 100,000 to earn a response from the Obama administration, a decision could have been taken to archive it and stop accepting any new signature.
The White House is expected to have an official response to the petition within stipulated 60 days.
Meanwhile, the White House is still looking for signatures that did not meet the criteria for the petition which was created on September 21 by someone who identified himself with the initials R G, after Congressman Ted Poe and Dana Rohrabacher introduced a bill in the U.S. House of Representative, seeking to designate Pakistan as a State Sponsor of Terrorism.
It met the threshold of 1,00,000 signatures in less than a week. With various groups both inside and outside the U.S. actively campaigning on the social media for people to support the petition, recording more than 1,00,000 petitioners signing the document in less than 24 hours at times.
It became the first-ever petition to cross half a million mark. A day after it was closed for signature, the final count as of now stands at 6,65,769 signatures.
While there is no official ranking of popular petitions, the one seeking "charges against the 47 U.S. Senators in violation of the Logan Act in attempting to undermine a nuclear agreement" in April 2015 appears to be the second most popular petition with 3,20,000 signatures.
According to a website - WHpetitions.info - that keeps track of unanswered petitions, 323 White House petitions have met their signature thresholds so far.
The White House has responded to 318 of them (98 percent) with an average response time of 117 days. Average waiting time so far for five unanswered petitions is 36 days. This does not include the latest petition.
Baloch-Americans have also launched their own petition on "Free Balochistan from Pakistan's illegal occupation".
Edited by willina - 9 years ago
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