Rejected petition Make it a criminal offence to deliberately mislead the electorate.

Democracy only works if we have honest and balanced information on which to base our decisions. If it is an offence to mislead consumers when advertising a consumer product, it is surely much more important to deliberately mislead in order to get a vote.

Personal opinions are fine, lies are not.

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The EU referendum presented many examples of deliberate manipulation. Whilst the UK might have a gross contribution of £350M, a week, and it might be a good idea to increase NHS funding by £350M, to suggest one can replace the other is deliberate misrepresentation.

This petition is not parochial. It should be an offence, irrespective of who it is who lies.

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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/119416

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Date submitted 25 June 2016
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