This petition was submitted during the 2015 to 2017 Parliament
Rejected petition Stop on demand postal voting - only people with valid reasons should have one.
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Postal voting was introduced in the UK in 1918 as a mechanism to provide people, who were physically unable to get to a polling station, a way to vote in a general election. In 2001 the Labour government allowed postal voting to anyone. This petition demands abolition of postal voting on demand.
Since 2001, there have been many examples of postal vote fraud as a result of being able to request on demand, and this needs to end in order to preserve the democratic system of the UK.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/sep/06/men-jailed-attempted-postal-vote-fraud
http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN03667/SN03667.pdf
Why was this petition rejected?
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.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/114551
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