Submitted on Wednesday 14th December 2011
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
e-petition should have both vote-for and a vote-against
An e-petition currently only has a vote-for button and hence some one who objects to the e-petition has no way to voice their objection.
I propose that a new option 'vote-against' is introduced. If someone objects to the e-petition they click vote-against.
I don't think that an abstention button is required but this is a further refinement if necessary.
The criteria for passing to the back-benchers may need to be redefined:
eg retain status quo - more than 100,000 fors
or more than 100,000 net votes
or more than 100,000 total votes
Perhaps the arbitrary 100,000 should be replaced by 0.1% of UK population (approx 70 million) ie 70,000.
NB. A low net vote with high total votes indicates contention and may need to be debated anyway.
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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.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
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