Becasue we all know the website that has a petition to build the Death Star is going to be taken seriously. Online petitions like this mean nothing when I can simply create accounts and sign it with each one. We don't know the amount of people that singed it did it once and the amount that created more than one account.
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So, the idea, that they could check account details with their own data about citizens, didn't occur to you?