Submitted on Monday 21st July 2025
Rejected on Friday 1st August 2025
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Reject plans to allow 16 year old voting in UK
Reject plans to allow 16 yr olds voting in General elections.
16 yr olds are not adults and are currently restricted from participating in adult activities like smoking,drinking and more. Why put the pressure of adult decisions onto a child.16 yr olds have enough pressure on them already such has exams and finding six form/college placements.Let them have the two years to sort out their education before they are legally allowed to vote.
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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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