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Make lying in an election campaign a criminal offence.

Submitted on Friday 8th July 2016

Rejected on Friday 29th July 2016

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Make lying in an election campaign a criminal offence.

Petition Details

Lying in an election or referendum campaign should be treated as electoral fraud. Political campaigns should be legally bound to produce evidence of anything stated as fact in order for the public to be able to make a properly informed decision.

Additional Information

For instance, lying about the amount of money that the UK pays the EU every week and then writing it two feet high on the side of a bus. Or promising to pay that amount of money to the EU and then immediately backtracking on that promise after victory.


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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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