The White House responded on Tuesday to all of the unanswered online petitions that have met the minimum requirement of 100,000 signatures on its "We The People" platform .

Twenty petitions received responses, including one requesting a pardon for Edward Snowden, one to require labels for genetically modified foods and another to reform the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.

White House Chief Digital Officer Jason Goldman announced in a blog post on Medium that the administration will change the way it responds to e-petitions , setting a 60-day turnaround time for issuing official responses -- before Tuesday, there was no deadline. The White House communications team will now be dedicated to bringing petitions to decision-makers around the executive branch, Goldman said.

The White House also announced on Tuesday that Change.org, one of the biggest and most successful online petition websites, will be integrated with the "We the People" software, which means a signature at Change.org will count towards the official government tally.

In addition, the administration has updated the open source code for the petition software on Github, reflecting significant changes to the codebase. Previously, We The People ran on MongoDb. Now, it's written in MySQL.

In 2011, the White House launched a website that enabled the American public to petition the Government for a redress of grievances," a right enshrined in the First Amendment of the Constitution. The aptly named "We the People" e-petition platform has become the most popular online official open government software in the United States, reaching 19.5 million users and garnering over 27 million signatures and 411,546 e-petitions as of this month.

A petition must receive 100,000 signatures in order to get an official response from the White House. As WHPetitions.info notes, while the White House responded to 92 percent of the 271 total petitions that met the threshold, the remaining 20 had languished for many months, with an average response time of 344 days.