Rejected petition Consider the votes of young people as having more weight in EU referendum.

Young people will have to deal with the consequences of leaving the EU much more than the old, in terms of years of life with this change. Young people had a majority for remain whereas the old voted to leave. Overall, the young are going to have to live with something they didn't want for longer.

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<40 = majority remain.
>40 = majority leave.

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.

It's not clear how this could be done. Voting in the UK is anonymous. It is not therefore possible to work out which votes were cast by young people.

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 24 June 2016
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