Submitted on Thursday 1st August 2019
Rejected on Friday 9th August 2019
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
To reform the postal voting system that has been shown to be open to abuse.
The Peterborough by-election saw over 13,500 postal votes being issued in a region that has already seen convictions for postal voting fraud.
The postal voting system should only be used for those voters who cannot for legitimate reasons vote in person. However, clearly that are cases where voters who are physically capable of voting in person choose the postal voting system for nefarious reasons.
The Electorial Commission knows this but has done nothing to prevent this abuse. It means that if the abuse is widespread enough the outcome of a close result at a general election could result in a fraudulent government being formed.
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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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