Submitted on Sunday 20th July 2025
Rejected on Friday 1st August 2025
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Keep the voting age at 18 and stop it being reduced to 16
Act responsible and keep the voting age at 18
A person at 16 has limited life experience and is a very easy target to be lured into voting irresponsibly.
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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 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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