White House petitions should list the full names of petition signatories, and the list of signatories should be searchable. Petitions have historically been a method for citizens to publicly declare their support for an issue or cause. The current White House policy of obscuring the identity of petition signatories allows individuals to elevate issues or causes that they do not publicly support with the intent of unfairly manipulating the public open political discourse.
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