Rejected petition Reduce voting age to 16 in a future referendum on the UK's membership of the EU.

There has been criticism that younger people, i.e. those who are likely to be affected by that vote for the longest period of their lives, were not allowed to join in the referendum on the UK's membership of the EU. This petition seeks to address that issue.

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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/119769

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Date submitted 25 June 2016
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