Update: The signatures threshold for petitions on the We the People platform to receive an official response from the White House has changed since this blog post was published.

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Among them was Mick Thompson, who created Where the People, a time-lapse visualization of zip codes where petitions are being signed, weighted for signatures by percentage of population.

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The state Republican committee challenged McCain's petitions in eight upstate districts for having insufficient signatures.

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She had organised petitions for campaign-finance reform, with tens of thousands of signatures, but got nowhere.

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These rules included that if a candidate submitted over 15K signatures, including 600 from each CD, the petitions would be checked for prima facie validity and then deemed valid.

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Forbes is now challenging the Bush petitions in six heavily Democratic districts, all in New York city, for having allegedly fraudulent signatures.

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Three petitions on the website change.org, calling for her to be removed from office, have about 2, 500 signatures combined.

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