A bit over a week ago, the NRCC hooked up a printer to the internet, attached to a form which let you put in your name and e-mail address, complete with a livestream that would let you watch in real time as your signed petition was barfed out of the printer.
Aside from being a massive waste of paper and toner (complete with associated bragging), ... it was a printer connected to the internet. You can probably guess what happened, but for some examples, the orangle squiggle awaits.
Originally, the form didn't do any sort of check. You could literally put just about anything into the form, and it'd show up on a piece of paper within a minute or two.
A few weeks later, when it went up yesterday, there was some filter in place. Names that were "too foreign" or otherwise nonsense were silently rejected. That didn't stop some people from being creative, trying to find what names they could pass through the filter and get onto a real petition:
Other dubious names made it through as well, like "Phillip Fry", "Gordon Freeman", "George Zimmerman", "Anne Frank", "Ronald McDonald", "Bob Barker", and even "Frank Frank", and plenty of famous characters/actors (even a few war criminals!)
It's currently stuck on Harry Mason (a video game character) but with any luck it should be up and running again soon, if only because it's hilarious to see what comes out of it next.
I'm not sure if the saddest part is how much paper they've wasted or the fact that nobody realized how dumb this idea was.