15 years ago
day dreamer

How do you make an online petition if there are no actual signatures?

I've never actually started a petition, but now I would like to make one to change something at my high school. But the only thing I have time for is an online one to send to the administration as an email, but I'm not sure how to make it look official online. Obviously people's names aren't really enough because I could've just made them all up. What do I do?? And how many signatures do you generally need? Thanks for your help.
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15 years ago
Mutt
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An on-line petition isn't worth the paper it is printed on. You have no way to verify that the persons that "sign" the petition are real, nor can you verify that they only sign once.
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15 years ago
The Arbiter of common sense
An online petition is somewhat like a verbal agreement: not worth the paper it's written on. In order to really get the attention of the school administration, you'd need to take the time and effort to collect signatures in person. The very fact that you have no time for anything but an online petition suggests the issues isn't important enough to matter to YOU, so why would it matter to them? I'm not trying to be snarky towards you at all, but I'm pointing out how an online petition will be perceived. Add in the total lack of verfiability, and I doubt it will do anything more than a simple request from you yourself. Why not just send an email, setting out in clear and well written terms, what you are concerned with. If you can, get a few friends to add their names to the email as well.
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15 years ago
Anonimoose
you can have supporters sign on a paint program then attach the file to an e-mail for you the cut the signature and put it on on document. Also the amount of signatures depends on the population of your school just try to get as many as you can. It doesn't hurt to have extra signatures. But still you might be better of doing it old fashioned way
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15 years ago
Srta. Argentina
I've signed these online. You just type in your full name and usually like your address, some sort of contact.
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