Submitted on Friday 29th March 2019
Rejected on Tuesday 2nd April 2019
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Have 'None of the above' as an option on ballot papers.
There is currently no method of registering an objection to the candidates on a UK ballot paper. The addition of the 'None of the above' option allows voters to register their involvement in a democratic election but indicate that none of the candidates are suitable representatives.
There is no way of knowing whether low voter turnout is due to apathy or dissatisfaction with all of the candidates. Similarly, is a spoiled paper a protest or an error? 'None of the above' will help to engage the electorate and possibly force a by-election if this is the majority vote. Candidates will be able to gauge more accurately their popular mandate if they know the true proportion of the electorate who objected to them.
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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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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/237519
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