Hi, Very nice that official Britain ( Downing street 10, the prime ministers office ), has a petition site.
What I miss is : 1. Space for the arguments pro et contra, or pointer to such arguments, preferrably Wiki-style. Wikia might evolve to become one of the defacto sites for this ? 2. Automatic creation of a counter-petition There might be some downsides to the latter. And I think that level-headed arguments supported by "facts" should have more weight than the sheer number of people that have been "lured" to choose a particular option. Also bear in mind the very real possibilities for fraud in such petitions. Some of the same concerns arise as in electronic voting. I have myself tested voting repeatedly in online polls from different machines or even different browsers on the same machine, or deleting cookies and voting again. I am quite sure that such things can be automated, even picking phony/lent adresses from a phone-book. For e-voting problems, see e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacking_Democracy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Box_Voting Best Regards, Morten --- Janet Hawtin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/softwarepatents/ > > this looked like a nice way to do petitions > > janet > _______________________________________________ > Campaigns-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/campaigns-l > Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Campaigns-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/campaigns-l
