Also, how many petitions are passed around for people to sign each year vs. number of times you can vote in a year? Being that the number of petitions far outweigh the number of times you vote, they have that much less significance then a vote does, and thus a far less bullies trying to corrorse/pressure you for petitions then voting.
And if I do get my legs broken for signing/not signing a petition, my next stop after I get out of the hospital would be the PD to file charges for assault.
Petitions are more we the undersigned would like to see this happen/not happen to put pressure on current elected gov. to sway them your way, and thus doesn't have as much of an impact.
BTW, your signature is checked on an absentee ballot and the registration form, just as it is checked when you go to the polls, by comparing it to known copy of your signature.
"Conversion, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will." -- Virginia Woolf, "Mrs. Dalloway"