Thursday, February 15, 2007

Triple-counting signatures

Much has been made of the 1.3m (and counting) signatures on the N.10 E-petition website against road charging. I'm not a techie, but one reason for this might just be that when you sign up for a petition (once) you get 3 replies from the website that you need to click to confirm - possibly triggering 3 signatures?

I was signing up to a petition against ID cards

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/IDcards/

1 comment:

Tristan said...

I've never had that happen...

The people at mysociety are also pretty good, I doubt they'd triple count like that.