re: Petition to lift the moratorium......

More than 155k signatures, and it's amounted to......nothing!

Where has this petition been used in any setting other than clogging up emails and scamming people to give their private information to be collected on an unsecure site?

The only thing that this petition will be used for is for the govt to see how ignorant the people of Louisiana are. Instead of sending verifiable letters - through the mail - it's clear that the people of LA don't actually want to do anything that will help them towards economic recovery. But it sure feels good to forward on junk mail! Yee haw!!!

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To compare in the real world, a local government may require of a protesting group tackling a problem to not only require the signatures of people who sign their petitions, but also their printed name, and a way to verify the signature (either with a phone number or identification number via a driver's license or a passport) to ensure that the signature is legitimate and not falsified by the protestors.[2]

Many legitimate non-governmental organizations (NGOs) shun online petitions for various reasons.

The track record of online petitions is also another reason why many NGOs shun them, as there are very few examples of this form of petition achieving its objective, and critics frequently cite it as an example of slacktivism.

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