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Lower the voting age from 18 to 16

Submitted on Thursday 30th June 2016

Rejected on Friday 1st July 2016

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Lower the voting age from 18 to 16

Petition Details

Currently, 16 year olds are allowed to make decisions such as; buying a lottery ticket, consent to sexual activity and marriage. Most of these decisions lead to consequences that they were unaware of. Voting gives them a say about their future and gives them a pathway to become more responsible.


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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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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/119769

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