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Include a “no candidate” option on election papers

Submitted on Sunday 14th January 2024

Rejected on Tuesday 23rd January 2024

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Include a “no candidate” option on election papers

Petition Details

Include a “no candidate” option on election papers to allow voters to indicate a lack of confidence in all the candidates. Currently not voting is seen as apathy, and spoiling the ballot paper as ignorance

Additional Information

Parliament needs to understand when voters have no confidence in the options available too them


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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.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

You may wish to sign the following petition, which calls for a similar action:

Implement "None of the above" on ballots in all United Kingdom elections #NOTAUK
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/650023

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