Submitted on Thursday 17th July 2025
Rejected on Friday 1st August 2025
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Keep the voting age at 18 years.
I would like the government to keep the voting age at 18 years old.
Most 16/17 year olds are immature to make a decision and should the voting age is to be reduced to 16 it should be done by referendum.
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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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You may wish to sign the following petitions, which call for similar action:
Don't lower the voting age to 16
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/733604
We call for a referendum before extending voting rights to 16 & 17-year-olds
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/733679
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