Submitted on Thursday 12th September 2019
Rejected on Wednesday 18th September 2019
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Reduce the voting age to 16.
We are a group of Year 11 students from Hornsey School for Girls and we believe that the voting age should be lowered to 16 because young people should have a say in the future of our country.
Issues like climate change are so important that we feel that everyone in society should have a say.
75% of 16 and 17 year olds voted in the Scottish independence referendum - higher than 18-24 year olds and evidence that young people can boost turnout in elections and other votes.
16 year olds can:
marry
join the army
consent to sex
pay taxes
get a job
Why shouldn't they be able to affect our parliament and our councils, our referendums and our mayors?
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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.
There's a petition calling for the voting age to be lowered to 16 for general elections:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/265932
And a petition calling for the voting age to be lowered to 16 for general elections and referenda:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/269437
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