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The Poker Grapevine – Online Poker Petition Update
Posted by: James Carter. - Wed, 2011-10-12 11:32
The online poker petition posted in the We The People section of the White House website managed to accumulate the 5,000 signatures needed for consideration in less than 3 days. The initial enthusiasm appears to have quickly waned though, and even though the PPA (Poker Players Alliance) continued to encourage people to sign, the current number of signatures is only around 8,000, far off the 15,000 mark that the PPA has been aiming for. Of course, the deadline for the petition is November 22, so theoretically there’s still enough time to add a few thousand more signatures, but the way things have slowed down, hitting 15,000 is not highly likely. The PPA has sent out emails to more than 100,000 members, so the low number of signatures is at least a little peculiar.
The American public takes much more interest in other issues, some of which are quite ludicrous. There’s a petition for the formal acknowledgement of extraterrestrial intelligence engaging humanity, which has received slightly more signatures than the online poker initiative. The extraterrestrial intelligence petition is currently 23rd on the list of submitted petitions while the online poker petition is 26th.
Getting more signatures would be extremely important, because the number of signatures required to qualify a petition for further consideration has been raised to 25,000. Fortunately, the
online poker petition has already qualified, on account of reaching the required threshold before the number was raised.
Signing the petition only takes a couple of minutes, but people are probably reluctant to post their real full names and other bits of personal information on a public website. On the petition, only a signee’s first name is shown, followed by the initial of the surname and the location.
The weird thing about the online poker petition is that if all those to whom
Full Tilt poker owes money signed, it would soar into the lead and it would dwarf all the other petitions posted thus far.
