Rejected petition Give 16 year olds the vote in the in-out EU referendum on June 23rd

Rejected on 22 February 2016

This historic referendum to decide if the Uk stays within the EU or not is so important that it is critical that the generation that will be most impacted by the result should have a fair and proportionate say.

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.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/119706

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