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Lower the voting age from 18 to 16

Submitted on Saturday 14th December 2013

Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Lower the voting age from 18 to 16

Additional Information

The current minimum voting age in UK general elections is 18. We want to take action on this issue and want it to be lowered to 16 in order to give our youth a say in our apparently democratic society. Please show your support.


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This petition was rejected

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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