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- noun Plural form of
e-petition .
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Examples
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Other critics say e-petitions are a false form of democracy.
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Don't expect the new site to be perfect at first, although it will likely incorporate some good ideas from the existing UK e-petitions website.
Sarah Granger: Automating 'We the People': New White House Initiative for Citizen Petitions Sarah Granger 2011
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Back to the e-petitions website, where attention has turned to speed limits for mobility scooters, and any reasonably intelligent crowd would have to conclude that to revive this outfit, in strengthened form, from the oblivion into which it had been so deservedly consigned, was something worse than idiotic.
This is a platform for hysteria rather than people power | Catherine Bennett 2011
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Other critics say e-petitions are a false form of democracy.
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But within days of the on-ramp's arrival, the e-petitions are already so numerous and disorganised that it could almost have been designed to frustrate the emergence of a single demand with enough signatories to test Cameron's sincerity.
This is a platform for hysteria rather than people power | Catherine Bennett 2011
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Like the multiple calls for an English parliament, and for leaving the EU, support for capital punishment is distributed over numerous rival e-petitions, although the official list of disallowed proposals repeatedly gives duplication as the reason for rejection.
This is a platform for hysteria rather than people power | Catherine Bennett 2011
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Only a call for convicted London rioters to lose all benefits has attracted more support on the e-petitions website – with 217,632 adding their signatures.
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The campaign to open files that document Margaret Thatcher's discussions about the 1989 tragedy was boosted by a string of high-profile names urging people to back the cause on the government's e-petitions website.
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He spoke out ahead of the publication on Thursday of the first submissions to a new e-petitions scheme which could see the most popular appeals discussed in parliament.
Death penalty could be debated in Commons after e-petition calls 2011
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Padding out requests from the punishment lobby are any number of worthy, but less eye-catching pleas, all just as doomed as the 33,068 e-petitions that were generated then ignored under Blair and Brown, along with the even greater number that were judged by discerning professionals to be too worthless for public assessment.
This is a platform for hysteria rather than people power | Catherine Bennett 2011
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