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Lower the Voting age to 16 for all Elections

Submitted on Wednesday 1st October 2014

Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Lower the Voting age to 16 for all Elections

Additional Information

We want 16 and 17 year olds to have the vote, we want to vote as we showed in the Scottish Independence Referendum. We want the voting age to be lowered for the UK general election in 2015.


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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.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

Please see below petition:

Petition Title: Lower the UK franchise to 16 year's of age

Created by: Rudi Affolter

Closing: 30/03/2015

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