Submitted on Wednesday 1st February 2017
Rejected on Monday 6th February 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Fix online petitions to stop non-UK citizens or residents signing petitions!
After the Brexit referendum flaws in this online petition system were identified whereby anyone in the world could easily sign petitions by pretending to be in the UK.
Please fix this!
One must be a British citizen or a UK resident to create or sign a petition. However it is easy to by-pass the online checks for this by pretending to be a British citizen or a UK resident.
This seriously undermines the credibility of petitions because the number of signatories cannot be trusted.
Furthermore valuable government time and effort is wasted.
See:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/26/petition-for-second-eu-referendum-may-have-been-manipulated
You can't sign this petition because it was rejected. But you can still comment on it here at Repetition.me!
The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action. You could start a new petition explaining clearly what changes you would like to be made to the petitions site.
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