Submitted on Wednesday 10th April 2019
Rejected on Thursday 18th April 2019
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Allow a protest vote on all ballot papers.
Currently people have no way to protest and be counted at election time. Many people chose not to vote while some may spoil their ballot papers. Although those numbers are available they are indistinguishable from voter apathy and genuine error.
I propose that on all ballot papers, both government and local, a choice is available which states something similar to "I choose not to vote for any of these candidates or parties".
In the event that this protest vote wins, then a re-run may be the outcome but at the very least, Government would have a true count of protest.
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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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