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Allow 16-17 year olds to vote in the upcoming general election.

Submitted on Tuesday 18th April 2017

Rejected on Monday 24th April 2017

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Allow 16-17 year olds to vote in the upcoming general election.

Petition Details

We have a political system that prides its self on democracy.Throughout the Brexit debate people both sides were preaching about giving people a voice and bringing back control. Is it not ironic that the people whose futures are being debated don't have a voice? We are the future, let us have a say.

Additional Information

I am an A-level politics student at a local (state) secondary school. I am 17 an I will not be able to participate in the general election that the PM has called for. I have a real passion for politics along with thousands young people at the moment.

At The end of the day long term key political decisions are being decided by the elderly who statistically speaking will be dealing with the consequences for a much shorter period of time.

We need to stop the marginalisation of young people.


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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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