The malding horde botting theory does not make any sense.
Think about it. Yes, their goal is to make people stop caring once it reaches 1M and then crashes and burns after the recount, but making it so popular would only attract news articles due to a tasty "EU citizens are unuted to own the corpos" headline, which would lead to more popuparity even without dabbing on jason, which in turn would lead to the inherent herd mentality of humankind causing it to have EVEN MORE actual voters even after it passes the 1M mark.
The initiative was already at 600k before that, and they couldnt have botted 400 fucking THOUSAND sigs so quick, so we can assume that at least half of those are valid.

If this is really a thorcord operation, the only thing it will result in is giving more natural votes to the enemy.