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MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Does it not stop you from signing multiple times? The UK one tells you you’ve already signed it when you try again. I tried it again recently in case i was misremembering signing the second petition after the first one was misunderstood completely by the uk government.

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zerofk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Oddly, the EU one just has a checkbox that you need to check to confirm that you haven’t signed before. I’m guessing removal of duplicates happens only after closing, along with other data validation.

I thought this strange at first too, but I think it’s because of the disparate identification methods in different countries. If everyone had a digital ID card instant checking would be doable, but note it probably isn’t.

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- Opisek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  That’s not true. It depends on the country. In certain countries it will tell you if your identification number had been used before.
  
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  - zerofk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Interesting! I tried from a country that has an eID so it should be trivial to weed out duplicates, yet I got that checkbox.
    
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    Opisek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Maybe it’s a self report feature >.<
    
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- MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  For the UK one it’s just tied to your email address to prevent duplicates, and you just input your name and physical address which will be used to confirm you’re actually a citizen.
  
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kuhli@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Wait, what happened with the first one?

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- Burnedspaghetti@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Parliament disbanded iirc
  
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  - Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    After giving such a bad answer to it that some other part of the government stepped in and said the answer was dramatically insufficient.
    
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    echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I’m not surprised it got a bad answer though. The government was completely dysfunctional by that point (and had been well over a year), I wouldn’t be surprised if it was just some random civil servant who was just told to weave a fig leaf at it.
    
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