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Lower the voting age to 16.

Submitted on Thursday 30th March 2017

Rejected on Wednesday 5th April 2017

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Lower the voting age to 16.

Petition Details

At the age of 16 you can join the army, get married/have a civil partnership, Have a sexual relationship and go to Jail. if we are old enough to face the consequences of the law and die for our country surely we are old enough to vote. Its Our future, Its our Vote

Additional Information

75% of 16/17 year olds wanted to vote STAY in BREXIT. Those are the people whose jobs and lives will be most affected by the UK leaving the EU. Yet they aren't allowed to have a say.


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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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