Brexit ‘2nd Referendum Petition’ a 4 Chan Prank

Re:Brexit ‘2nd Referendum Petition’ a 4 Chan Prank by callumlocke on Sunday June 26, 2016 @05:22PM (#11982801)

This is a fake story. The Petitions Comission know what they're doing and remove fraudulent signatures.

https://twitter.com/hocpetitions/status/747063424132255745

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Re:Brexit ‘2nd Referendum Petition’ a 4 Chan Prank by Grue3 on Sunday June 26, 2016 @05:25PM (#11982814)

No, they don't. There's clearly more than 70000 fraudulent signatures if there are 30000 from Vatican alone.

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Re:Brexit ‘2nd Referendum Petition’ a 4 Chan Prank by makomk on Sunday June 26, 2016 @05:31PM (#11982845)

Dunno about then, but there don't appear to be anymore: {"name":"Vatican City","code":"VA","signature_count":58} See for yourself: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/131215.json

It's entirely plausible that whoever wrote the script intentionally designed it to submit a large chunk of votes from "Vatican City" to try and discredit the petition, especially given /pol/'s political leanings.

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Re:Brexit ‘2nd Referendum Petition’ a 4 Chan Prank by tom345e on Sunday June 26, 2016 @05:30PM (#11982844)

{"name":"Vatican City","code":"VA","signature_count":58} Where did you get 30000 from?

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Re:Brexit ‘2nd Referendum Petition’ a 4 Chan Prank by blechschmidt on Sunday June 26, 2016 @06:08PM (#11983012)

A look at https://archive.is/https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/... supports the claim. Although, of course, one cannot really tell how many fraudulent signatures have remained undetected.

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