Duplicate Email Address

Had to remove email requirement because client needs to manually input signatures that were collected via clipboard and don’t have emails for most names. They only need to collect the names and not interested in verifying email but they still want to keep the email field to collect addresses if people want to provide them.

Problem is that inputting names without an email address results in “This petition has already been signed using your email address.” I’ve tried deleting and commenting the section around line 34 of ajax.php for duplicate emails and this only just breaks the entire backend of WordPress.

// check if submitted email address is already in use for this petition
	 if ( $the_signature->has_unique_email( $the_signature->email, $the_signature->petitions_id ) ) {

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