For example, State Senate primary candidates should need far fewer than the 1,000 signatures now required during sweltering summers, when potential petition signers and carriers often escape public places for cooler spots indoors or in the countryside.
Two Long Islanders, worried about potential consumer fraud, petitioned the A.T.F. in June to create a third appellation, called simply Long Island, that would encompass all of Nassau and Suffolk Counties.
The move clears the way for potential candidates to gather petition signatures to qualify for the ballot.
She said of a potential ban if the petition succeeded: "I always say, I've had my say and people can have theirs.
The proprietors of Battersea Bridge, concerned about a potential loss of customers, petitioned Parliament against the scheme, stating that "[Dodd] is a well known adventurer and Speculist, and the projector of numerous undertakings upon a large scale most if not all of which have failed", and the bill was abandoned.
An online petition criticising the potential penal sentence gathered more than half a million signatures.
But this petition and the potential of a ban are symbolic gestures that carry a lot of weight.
A 10,000-signature petition against the potential closure of half of Sheffield's libraries has been handed in at the city's town hall.
The Battersea Bridge Company were concerned about the potential loss of custom, and petitioned Parliament against the scheme, stating that "[Dodd] is a well known adventurer and Speculist, and the projector of numerous undertakings upon a large scale most if not all of which have failed", and the bill was abandoned.
Sometimes there is no convenient surface for writing and signing a petition; sometimes a potential signer won't have a pen.
