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Appoint an Independent Election Commissioner for electoral campaigns.

Submitted on Sunday 17th July 2016

Rejected on Tuesday 26th July 2016

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Appoint an Independent Election Commissioner for electoral campaigns.

Petition Details

The role would monitor and determine whether campaign speeches and marketing material are inaccurate or misleading. It would also set best practice measures to ensure that all audiences have marketing material that explains key issues and context to their level of understanding.

Additional Information

During the European referendum, we saw a misrepresentation of information and a lack of clear information from both sides of the campaign. The Independent (13/7/16) quoted the Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights, that we saw “racist rhetoric about migrants and migration from the highest political levels in the UK”.

Many people were confused about which way to vote and needed greater clarity and materials that spoke directly to them.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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