Online Petitions are a Sham(infovegan.com)
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Online Petitions are a Sham
http://infovegan.com/2010/08/11/how-we-do-it-in-washington-dc
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I've interviewed political consultants on Mixergy.com who told me that they use petitions to collect email addresses and get new donors and activists.
It's a pretty open secret.
It's a pretty open secret.
The sun rises in the east.
But given that exercises like these are incredibly important to the viability of organizations -- organizations whose mission/cause/work you presumably agree with -- wouldn't it be pretty bad if everyone just stopped taking part in these?
The bottom line is that these petitions work and allow organizations to carry out a mission that their members do in fact support, whether or not the petition is a sham. It's definitely a problem that they have to resort to doing crap like this, but until there is a better way, I don't see what else they can do.