Submitted on Saturday 5th December 2015
Rejected on Monday 7th December 2015
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Stop on demand postal voting - only people with valid reasons should have one.
Postal voting was introduced in the UK in 1918 as a mechanism to provide people, who were physically unable to get to a polling station, a way to vote in a general election. In 2001 the Labour government allowed postal voting to anyone. This petition demands abolition of postal voting on demand.
Since 2001, there have been many examples of postal vote fraud as a result of being able to request on demand, and this needs to end in order to preserve the democratic system of the UK.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2578776/Scrap-postal-votes-elections-fixed-says-judge-warns-ballot-rigging-probability-parts-Britain.html
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/sep/06/men-jailed-attempted-postal-vote-fraud
http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN03667/SN03667.pdf
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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.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/114551
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