Petition the administration to recognize e-cigarettes

[CES]

It might help if we could get good information to the people (whoever they are) that will be responsible for writing the response. The less information they have, the more likely we are to get a knee-jerk response. The more information they have, the better the changes for a reasoned response.

(i signed the other petition too)

 

[rothenbj]

Don't know if this has been posted elsewhere, but it's another petition that needs attention. By raising the needed signatures to 25,000 in 30 days, the Whitehouse is basically telling the people to stuff it! Seems I remember they did the same thing in the UK.

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/fb/petition/petition/actually-take-these-petitions-seriously-instead-just-using-them-excuse-pretend-you-are-listening/grQ9mNkN

Interesting, if I sign in I get "404 Page Not Found", if I search for the petition and find it, I'm not logged in and when I do I get the pasge not found. Kind of like how the gubermint works.

 

[Vocalek]

Interesting, if I sign in I get "404 Page Not Found", if I search for the petition and find it, I'm not logged in and when I do I get the pasge not found. Kind of like how the gubermint works.

I am having tyhe same problem. I sent them a message using the "Contact Us" form.

 

[CJsKee]

Hummm, just tried and it's fine with Firefox...hope you can get through.

 

[rothenbj]

Worked this time. The site is a bit buggy but Elaine must have scared them.

 

[rschauer]

I tried Chrome and Firefox, and eventually had to use IE to sign in. The e-mail/password input boxes are missing in the other browsers (which worked just fine for me when I created my account to sign the e-cig petition).

Great work, webmasters. *eyeroll*

 

[Vocalek]

Count is at 10,709. Of course this is one that came in under the new rules. Needs 14,291 more votes.

 

[CJsKee]

Count is at 10,709. Of course this is one that came in under the new rules. Needs 14,291 more votes.

Ugh Maybe the best we can hope for is that Whitehouse staff reads it...but ya never know.

 

[rothenbj]

There should be a slew of signers on this one after they get a stock gubermint response on the original petitions that they submitted.

 

[Tendril]

I was able to get their site to work for me through a proxy and signed the new petition, thanks everyone for keeping us on our toes!

 

[DC2]

I tried Chrome and Firefox, and eventually had to use IE to sign in. The e-mail/password input boxes are missing in the other browsers (which worked just fine for me when I created my account to sign the e-cig petition).

Great work, webmasters. *eyeroll*

I'm having the exact same problem with IE though.
Can't sign in because there are no input boxes, just empty space.

 

[CJsKee]

Just a bump...hope you all that are having problems keep trying Here's the link again: https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petition...ening/grQ9mNkN

 

[DC2]

Just a bump...hope you all that are having problems keep trying Here's the link again: https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petition...ening/grQ9mNkN

404 Page Not Found


I could swear their webmasters are purposely trying to discourage public input.

 

[Vocalek]

I think part of the problem may be that their website cannot handle someone staying logged in between sessions.

Try selecting the option to logout.

Close the browser.

Open the browser again, and go back to the petition. You should see an option to login.

 

[DC2]

Try selecting the option to logout.

I haven't had an option to logout and it definitely seems to think I am not logged in.
So I previously clicked on the link to login and was presented with a blank space with no login fields to use.

I just tried again and this time I got the login fields.

I filled them in and attempted to login and I got a page that said to correct the hightlighted errors and try again.
There were no errors highlighted, and nothing needing correction.

Honestly, this website is the worst I've EVER seen anywhere.
It makes me wonder if they employ cheap labor from another country to run their website.

Wouldn't that be the ultimiate kick in the groin?

 

[rothenbj]

Your gubermint in action. That's the same reaction I get from my reps in congress, "Page not found".

 

[Vocalek]

I haven't had an option to logout and it definitely seems to think I am not logged in.
So I previously clicked on the link to login and was presented with a blank space with no login fields to use.

I just tried again and this time I got the login fields.

I filled them in and attempted to login and I got a page that said to correct the hightlighted errors and try again.
There were no errors highlighted, and nothing needing correction.

Honestly, this website is the worst I've EVER seen anywhere.
It makes me wonder if they employ cheap labor from another country to run their website.

Wouldn't that be the ultimiate kick in the groin?

You're almost there! Once I got to the page that told me I needed to correct errors, I was actually able to go to the petition and sign it. Of course I had to use a different window to do so....

Yup. We site is more fun than a barrel of monkeys, and apprently designed and developed by those monkeys.

 

[DC2]

This time the page was found, the signon fields were there, there were no errors, and everything actually worked right.

And yes, I have now signed this petition too.

 

[rothenbj]

See DC, it was really easy. You now not only need 5 times as many signatures, you need to have great determination and one heck of a lot of individual support. The next step should be to increase the number of signatures required to 125K. That should decrease the number of boilerplate responses they'd need to make.

 

[Vocalek]

I'll bet they are sorry already they started this PR stunt...