Submitted on Sunday 23rd February 2025
Rejected on Monday 31st March 2025
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Lower voting age to 16.
Government should introduce a bill to reduce voting age to 16.
More and more 16 year olds are becoming invested into politics and political literacy is on the rise.
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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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Lower the voting age to 16 for general elections
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700687
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