We had a report of wife trying to sign the e-petition as well as husband but being unable to do so from the same email address.
On asking the petition support people about this they replied: > Your email address is already succesfully signed up to that petition >(under the name John **). I'm afraid that there is a trade-off to be made > between allowing anyone to sign the petitions regardless of having an email address, > and protecting the petitions from too much abuse. > > We have come down on the side of using one email address per person to act as an anti-abuse mechanism > because it is now possible for anyone to get an email address for free in a few moments. On the converse, > if we let people use one address to sign multiple times we will likely see considerable fake signatures > almost straight away. So the message is to use a separate email address for each member of your family. You can do this easily by getting a temp address from yahoo (not that the petition site warns about problems with hotmail addresses). So, use this knowledge to make the most of your family members. Note that we are NOT advocating abusing the system. We think we have enough supporters to do this in the spirit of fair play. Cheers -- Will Chapman Save Our Waterways www.SaveOurWaterways.org.uk
