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Petition to add "None of the above" option for all future elections and referendums

Submitted on Wednesday 28th January 2015

Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Petition to add "None of the above" option for all future elections and referendums

Additional Information

We request that, in future elections and referendums, an option is included on the ballot paper to select "None of the above". This would allow the electorate to express dissatisfaction with all the choices offered (or even the whole process, as possibly in the case of the imposition of Police and Crime Commissioners) without the political establishment being able to to interpret abstention as voter apathy. In the long term, this should motivate greater self-examination and democratic responsiveness from political parties.


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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.

Please see the below petition:

Petition Title: Abstaining

Created by: Brian Whicher

Closing: 30/03/2015

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