If an elected official will be presenting the petition, be sure to have the member sign the petition, preferably on the first page. There are several conventions that ensure petitions represent only willing signatories. All signatures must be originals, not copies. Signatures cannot be glued or stapled onto the petition. Each page of signatures must begin with the text of the petition.
Some governments require signatories to sign and print their names.
Check the guidelines to be sure that you've organized your petition in a way acceptable to your audience. Let's examine the process of creating a petition by studying how concerned citizens could have petitioned the Ontario government to change a law. Then you can test how well you understand the process of petitioning by creating a petition addressed to the federal parliament. The scenario could well have unfolded like this. Tina and Mohammed decided to try to get the law changed so that a pet could not be returned to an abusive owner.