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Making voting a legal requirement for all citizens and residents.

Submitted on Saturday 25th June 2016

Rejected on Tuesday 5th July 2016

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Making voting a legal requirement for all citizens and residents.

Petition Details

With the low voter turnout in the last general election (66.1%) and only 72% of people turning out for the EU referendum. The government needs to ensure that everyone's voice is heard during voting periods.

Additional Information

Everytime there is an election or referendum there are to many people who are too lazy or cannot be bothered to vote which can dramatically change the results. Democracy works when everyone takes part, not just the same people who keep voting for the same things. Australia has this system and people have to pay a fine if they haven't given a vaild reason on why they did not vote.


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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.

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