Submitted on Monday 8th April 2019
Rejected on Tuesday 7th May 2019
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Change the law to remove the 15 year cut off for voting for British expats.
The current requirement for voting is that one must have left the UK within 15 years. After 15 years a UK national living abroad cannot vote. The petition is to get this 15 year cut off extended or removed completely.
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:
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.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/252711
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