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Lower the voting to 16 across the whole of the United Kingdom

Submitted on Tuesday 31st October 2017

Rejected on Friday 3rd November 2017

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

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Lower the voting to 16 across the whole of the United Kingdom

Petition Details

16 and 17 year olds can already vote in elections in Scotland, and will soon be able to do so in Wales. Yet young people in England and Northern Ireland do not enjoy those rights. This is a longstanding debate, and now the time has come to empower young people and strengthen democracy across


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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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