Submitted on Saturday 1st October 2022
Rejected on Tuesday 4th October 2022
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Add an option to electoral ballot papers to record public vote of no confidence.
Provide constitutional change allowing representative democracy to reflect the will of the majority of the electorate by providing a voting category of "No confidence" which if selected must be counted as a valid vote giving an electable option enabling the voting public to withhold their mandate.
Encourage party politics, manifesto promises and government policy that people can vote for.
As opposed to the current practice of voting defensively against.
Voter turnout;
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/general-election-2019-turnout/
From this information it can be seen that a large proportion of the electorate is disengaged and so not represented.
The last 7 years shows me that government is increasingly incompetent, self-serving and fails to represent the majority interest.
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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.
You may wish to sign this petition which calls for the same action:
Add a "None of the above" option for General Elections
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/617575
Include 'I am not represented' on all ballot papers.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/616694
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