Submitted on Wednesday 8th June 2016
Rejected on Friday 10th June 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Extend voter registration deadline for the EU referendum due to website crash
The upcoming EU referendum will determine the UK's future. Last night the voter registration website on gov.uk crashed just hours before the deadline, leaving thousands of UK citizens unable to get their name on the register. Data shows that there was a lot of interest on the last day. Let's be fair
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/register-to-vote-site-crashes-an-hour-before-eu-referendum-deadline-a7070026.html
Hundreds of thousands of people have signed up on the voter registration website in the last few days before the deadline after a drive to get them to sign up.
Government statistics suggest most of the people signing up are relatively young.
Let's enable our younger citizens who have clearly shown an interest to get their name on the register and have a voice on 23/06.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Parliament agreed yesterday to a law which extended the deadline for registration. You can read the debate in the House of Commons here:
hansard.digiminster.com/commons/2016-06-09/debates/16060924000001/EUReferendumVoterRegistration
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