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Step 1: Create your e-petition
You will be asked to give your name, organisation (if you
represent one), address and email address, and the title and text
of your petition. You will also be asked to give a short, one-word
name for your e-petition. This will be used to give your e-petition
a unique URL (website address) that you can use to publicise your
e-petition if you wish.
You will be able to specify a start and finish date for your
e-petition, and we can host your e-petition for up to 6 months.
Step 2: Submit your e-petition
Once you have submitted your e-petition, you will receive an
email asking you to click a link to confirm. Your proposed
e-petition will then be delivered to us.
Step 3: E-petition approval
We will check your e-petition to make sure that it meets the
basic requirements set out in our
terms and conditions.
If for any reason we cannot accept the e-petition, we will write
to you to explain why. You will be able to edit and resubmit your
e-petition if you wish.
Once your e-petition is approved, we will email you to let you
know; this will usually happen within five working days, although
during busy periods this may take longer.
If we cannot approve your amended e-petition, we will write to
you again to explain why.
Any
e-petitions that are rejected or not resubmitted
will be published on this website, along with the reasons why it
was rejected. Any content that is offensive or illegal or clearly
spam will be left out. Every e-petition that is received will be
acknowledged on this website.
Step 4: E-petition live
Once your e-petition is live, you will be able to publicise the
URL you chose when you created your e-petition, and people
will be able to come to the website and sign it. As the e-petition
creator, your name and your organisation, if you have specified
one, will be displayed.
People who wish to sign a e-petition will be asked to give their
name and address and an email address that we can verify.
Please note that for a signature on a petition to count,
the person signing it must either live, work or study in the
Suffolk Coastal district.
The system is designed to identify duplicate names and
addresses, and will not allow someone to sign an e-petition more
than once. Anyone signing a e-petition will be sent an email asking
them to click a link to confirm that they have signed the
e-petition. Once they have done this, their name will be added to
the e-petition.
Your e-petition will show the total number of signatures
received. It will also display the names of signatories, unless
they have opted not to be shown.
Step 5: Our response to your e-petition
Our response will depend on what the petition asks for and how
many people have signed it. How we will respond to petitions is
set out in our petitions scheme. When we
respond, our response will be emailed to everyone who has signed
the e-petition. Responses to any
completed e-petitions will also be available to
view on this website.
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