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Make it a legal requirement to vote in all elections and referendums.

Submitted on Thursday 9th June 2016

Rejected on Monday 13th June 2016

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Make it a legal requirement to vote in all elections and referendums.

Petition Details

In the UK, after every single election we here how low the turn out for voting has been. Some local council elections have reported as low as 35% of eligible voters using their vote.
I feel that we should make voting in elections a legal requirement with punishment for none compliance.


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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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