petition drive
Organized signature collection
A petition drive is an organized effort to collect signatures supporting a cause, demand, or proposed legislation.
Activists coordinate volunteers to gather signatures in public spaces, online, or door-to-door: The petition drive to recall the mayor gathered 50,000 signatures in two weeks.
Many ballot initiatives require petition drives to qualify for voter consideration.
- signatureHandwritten name for verification
- signature gatheringCollecting names for initiatives
- grassrootsCommon people as political base
- ballotVoting document
- initiativeSelf-directed action capacity
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- Student Protestssit-in, walkout, demonstration, campus activism, student movement
- civic eventstown meeting, public hearing, election, public forum, community meeting
- community effortscommunity garden, neighborhood watch, block party, volunteer work, volunteering
- civic actioncivic engagement, community organizing, grassroots organizing, grassroots movement, volunteering
- grassroots organizingcanvassing, door knocking, phone banking, voter registration, rallies
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Binding directive from leadership
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Indifference to governance
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