Any page of signatures has to include the full wording of the petition on them to be valid.
Failing to do this, demonstrates a "shoot from the hip" mentality, at best.
More importantly, when people are told a partisan and arguably inaccurate version of the story, so they'll sign the petition, it poses questions about fairness and partiality of the process and the people involved in the process.
What offends me most is that it appears the main motivation was to avoid any solution to the on-going rule ambiguity. I have no problem the people disagreeing with the proposal, but a simple, blanket rejection to the proposal, rather than working with it, is not helping the sport.