Important:
This petition was submitted during the 2015-2017 parliament
Rejected petition Extend the final voter registration date for as long as possible.
If the final date of voter registration for the EU referendum can be extended, it should be and for as long as is feasible. The most recent debate was clearly sufficient to convince many more people to register, and this should be encouraged.
More details
How thousands of people tried to register to vote last night:
https://www.gov.uk/performance/register-to-vote
This petition was rejected
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK Government or Parliament to do.
Parliament agreed yesterday to a law which extended the deadline for registration. You can read the debate in the House of Commons here:
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