Quotes taken from the second link (by Andrew)
The BBC spoke to three cyber-security experts about how likely it is that a number of the 3m signatures gathered so far are not genuine.
They all agreed that the petition's email validation process would be a deterrent.
Additionally, while it is possible to buy lists of email addresses stolen in various data breaches on the black market, the owner of the list would still need to access those email accounts and retrieve the validation email before being able to sign in the name of somebody else.
Cyber-security expert Kevin Beaumont said that while it was possible that bots were involved, it would be "a bit of a pain" to build a sophisticated enough programme to cope with the email addresses.
"They would have to make a bot that signs up with unique email addresses, then clicks the unique link to sign," he said.
With protection like that in place, it looks like Russia couldn't have had any part in skewing previous votes . . . best let the USA know too
