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Keeping tabs on the UK's parliaments and assemblies
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TheyWorkForYou: Petition Your MP #48

Open TomSteinberg opened 13 years ago

TomSteinberg commented 13 years ago

MPs have long complained about not being able to handle spammy constituency mail that consists of thousands of copies of the same thing.

We could build a petitioning system into TheyWorkForYou that would allow people to make petitions aimed at specific MPs. MPs and campaigns could then point people to these, reducing the spammy mail and making it much easier to see what the public is trying to get out of MPs.

Essential features would include: a) Alerting MPs to petitions and sending them updates as signatures grow b) Allow MP and petition creator to send limited number of messages to signers c) Integrate with pre-existing rate-limiting on WriteToThem, to encourage people to turn their bulk mails into petitions.

TomSteinberg commented 13 years ago

https://www.popvox.com/bills does it and verifies that you're a local voter

TomSteinberg commented 13 years ago

And http://votizen.com/ too