Sentence examples for electronic petition from inspiring English sources

Those about to be robbed can can protest now, beginning by signing the electronic petition at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/annuities/.

The internet and mobile phones have enabled rapid mobilisation (organisers say more than 20m people have signed an electronic petition against Japan's UN bid).

And on Friday, an electronic petition — "Satire for the House of Commons" — was filed with the British government to change the law.

By late March, some 11,500 students had signed an electronic petition against the bans, calling them "an assault on our First Amendment rights".

On the government site, any British person can create an electronic petition, and if it receives more than 100,000 digital signatures, also by British citizens or residents, it "could be debated in the House of Commons".

By Thursday evening, more than 104,000 people had signed an electronic petition, posted on an official government Web site, which demanded that the nation's department for work and pensions to remove social welfare benefits from anyone caught rioting.

Websites appeared overnight once news of the bid broke and have so far collected around 70,000 signatures on electronic petitions.

It's a technique that differs from the old style activism of public rallies and the derided clicktivism of electronic petitions.

One such source of data are signatories to electronic petitions (e-petitions).

The data that can be harvested from the signing of electronic petitions represent a transactional audit trail of what people actually did (as opposed to what people think they did) and an entire population (without the need to take a representative sample).

SO CRITICAL, THESE YOUNG PEOPLE -- Dismayed by the look of new BMW's, a 16-year-old in Dallas, Trey Thompson, collected thousands of electronic signatures on a petition to have Chris Bangle fired as head of BMW design.