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Allow everyone on the electoral register to vote on a second EU referendum.

Submitted on Saturday 25th June 2016

Rejected on Monday 4th July 2016

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Allow everyone on the electoral register to vote on a second EU referendum.

Petition Details

Currently, you qualify to register to vote if you are:
-a British citizen
-an EU citizen resident in the UK
-a qualifying Commonwealth citizen resident in the UK
On the first EU referendum, EU citizen's living lawfully in the UK were not allowed to vote in spite of their contribution to the UK.

Additional Information

For more information please see this link:

http://www.aboutmyvote.co.uk/register-to-vote/who-can-register-to-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.

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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/136138

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