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They even signed petitions to this effect, such as the controversial Seville Statement on Violence (Adams et al.
In California, the Campaign for Digital Democracy is collecting digital petitions for a ballot initiative that would legalize Internet voting--though virtual signatures aren't legally valid, at least not yet.
It is easy to imagine that an Internet movement could spring up to oppose, for example, Vermont's gay-marriage ruling: A drive targeted at conservatives could collect thousands of electronic petitions in no time and solicit contributions for anti-gay marriage politicians.
Eleven of them filed divorce petitions -the first step to getting divorced.
The court receives thousands of petitions asking it to review lower-court decisions every year.