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Comment by matthewmorgan | Hacker News Reader

600k 'signatures' don't trump 17.4 million votes.

While that's true, it's already up to 800k, just 30 min after you made your comment

Oh well that changes things

At this rate of growth it would take less than 2 days to surpass the 17.4 million who voted to leave (and yes I know it won't maintain this level of growth)

Aw mon ami. They don't need millions. They need 1,269,501.

17,410,742 for. 16,141,241 against. 750k and counting. Time is not on your side amigo.

Wait, that's not how it works. How do you know that the people who voted aren't signing this as well? Everyone gets exactly one vote.

I agree. I voted remain. And I signed the petition. GP's math is baffling!

By that logic if every individual in the 16,141,241 signed the petition it would suddenly make it 32,282,482 vs 17,410,742?

I'm not trying to downplay the significance of the petition or its size, but I don't believe math works that way.

My argument is you don’t need to counter the original vote, only to make the difference between the two votes. It’s the sway that matters more than anything else.

Why there hasn’t been a counter pro-brexit petition yet I have no idea. Those numbers would be higher purely on the zealotry.

1) Unless the people who sign the petition had not voted (or voted for brexit, in which case you could even see it as a x2 effect) you can't "make the difference" using these numbers as they doesn't necessarily show any sway.

2) Why would there need to be a pro-brexit petition if brexit won the vote? That is unless cancelling brexit suddenly becomes the way that decision-makers want to go for (and note that there are pro hard brexit petitions)

Disclaimer: I do not reside in the UK, and I no longer click on every article in the ever-flowing torrent of brexit-related news, so my knowledge of the ongoings may be outdated

It's a petition for debate, only.

If the issue has already been debated recently, the Petitions Committee may decide not to put a petition forward –– and one might argue that this petition has already been debated in parliament.

This particular [petition] case is already active in the UK court, which means the petition does not meet the required standard to be considered.

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