On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Nick Scholtes wrote: > I use them all the time. As for which sites to go to, it depends on the > issues you're interested in "voting" on, and what your persuasion is. I > also send a fair amount of emails and faxes to my elected officials > through their government sites or through other websites (such as > Congress.org). I have no idea if these sites use FOSS. > > As far as if they work, I'm guessing you mean if they get results with > politicians. I'm pretty sure they do because a couple years ago Congress > tried to say they weren't going to accept comments from such sites. > People got upset, and I believe Congress backed off the issue. My petition wouldn't be a political thing -- nothing involving politicians -- it would be about policy within a scientific/professional organization. So when I said that the site should "work" I just meant that it should correctly collect the data and count signatories. So which site(s) do you recommend? Thanks for getting back to me! Mike > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu>wrote: > >> A little off topic but you guys seem to know things like this. Also, I >> would prefer a site that uses FOSS software, just because. >> >> There are sites on the web that allow users to enter a petition and to >> collect "signatures". Have any of you used these petition sites? Are any >> of them supposed to be better than others? I would be concerned mostly >> about sites that harvest email addresses or other information from >> signatories. Otherwise I just want to know that the site works. >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> Mike