The White House has the source code of a Drupal module on GitHub posted that online petitions are filed and can be managed. The code, which is freely available under an open source license, is used by Whitehouse.gov.
The American president Obama announced in 2011 that it is under the name of We the People a platform wanted to develop that citizens petitions may be submitted on the website of the White House. The underlying code of the petitietool would moreover, have to be made available, so that other authorities can use the software.
Meanwhile, the White House on GitHub, the source code of Petition made it accessible, yet with the alpha-status. Petition is a module for the cms system Drupal 7 that are also open source. Through the tool, users can an online petition to create the corresponding link to share it with others. If enough people signing a petition, it is visible for all visitors.
The Petition-tool by the White House to be used all on its on Drupal running website. American citizens would be so a easy way to be offered to get a say on public policy. A petition on Whitehouse.gov for the general public to be visible as these within a month at least 25.000 times is signed.