Successful popular petitions must be heard within the country's legislature, but there are some significant hurdles lying in wait for activists who wish to use them.
Consequently, the probability
of popular petitions being heard in Congress has significantly decreased, even though many petitions have gathered signatures from the one percent of voters.
The Brazilian government is seeking to
move popular petitions, an inefficient electoral system of the country, onto the Ethereum network, to process hundreds of millions of votes on the immutable Blockchain network.
But there's a much
more popular petition against Amazon, with 15,586 supporters, asking the store to accept a wider range of erotica.
Just a few weeks before, St. Mark's Bookshop had announced that Cooper Union was raising its rent and launched a
massively popular petition to save the store, which led to Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer negotiating a rent reduction.
Popular petitions also force lawmakers to address issues that the political establishment may shy from, says Araújo Costa, the law professor.
Popular petitions thus face a double hurdle before they get their day in congress: Gathering enough support, and then finding a legislator to «adopt» them to be presented as his or her own bill in congress.
More than 50 petitions have been submitted to the Blue House, the executive office of the South Korean head of state, the President, and the most
popular petition rejecting the Ministry of Justice's supposed plan to ban cryptocurrency trading has acquired more than 71,000 signatures.
In Brazil,
popular petitions enable over 145 mln voters across the country to come to a consensus on important political decisions.
But, for many decades, political experts and analysts have questioned the logistical issue
of popular petitions, and political commentators have described the structural problem of the electoral system of Brazil as the basis for most of the country's political issues.
The Brazilian government is seeking to
move popular petitions, an inefficient electoral system of the country, onto the Ethereum network
The
most popular petition was submitted on Dec. 14, the same day as the school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., an incident that Westboro responded to by announcing its intent to picket the funerals of the 26 victims, including 20 young children.
In October, a Fletcher student started
a popular petition to remove Scaramucci from the board.
The blockchain could be used to manage
these popular petitions along with other important aspects of the country's electoral system.
Popular petitions are an integral, but impractical, part of Brazil's already complex electoral system, which has been blamed for plunging the country into a political crisis.
For instance, if the Brazilian government was to process
its popular petitions on the Ethereum blockchain, which it plans to do in the future, only around 500,000 votes could be processed a day.
For Brazil's
popular petitions, whether ethereum - audited signatures will have the intended effect remains «an empirical question,» he says.
As a result,
popular petitions have little chance of being heard in congress, much less passed as law.
If the system takes off, it would mean Brazil's
popular petitions are secured by a global, decentralized, public blockchain.
We have received some requests from users to feature
the popular petition going around which requests that OnePlus support Project Treble on their devices, however, we declined to do so because we felt it was an unreasonable request.
Brazil is also using the technology to allow citizens to easily sign and verify
popular petitions.
Apart from the most
popular petition to prevent cryptocurrency trading ban from being imposed, many petitions have been submitted by South Korean citizens requesting the government to remove Park Sang - ki, the head of the Justice Ministry, from office.
Perhaps this is the reason that so few of
these popular petitions have actually being turned into law.
The current system of running
these popular petitions is considered a logistical nightmare.
Now, I can already hear the «petitions don't work» crowd coming out of the woodwork, but allow me to point you towards the Bikers DLC for GTA Online, the existence of which is thanks to
a popular petition.
Featured The South Korean government has officially responded to
the popular petition, with over 20,000 signers, against unfair cryptocurrency regulations.
Within the Brazilian electoral system,
any popular petition with the signatures of one percent of the country's populations is required to be heard in Congress.