Are they manipulating WH petition counts?

I wanted to post this over a week ago but didn't. I've kept an eye on the petition counts and I noticed some suspicious changes at first. Numbers for first petition on list about taxes quickly shot up to 400k and within a day or so dropped back down under 300k. In the first few days after the inauguration I was checking counts often. Numbers would go up and in a few hours they would go back down. Now they have been pretty said at 476k for a few days now. I would not put it past the goons to manipulate the counts and drive their narrative. Someone more tech savy than me needs to devise something to monitor this.