Rejected petition Make the EU Referendum a legal requirement to vote as per the last Census.

The government makes it a legal reauirement to respond to a Census. We find it difficult to understand why a decision of this magnitude is not given the same status. Thus, we believe that this has been an oversight of the Government when proposing the afore-mentioned.

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 what action the Government or Parliament could take on this now that the referendum has happened.

If you would like voting in the UK to be compulsory, you might like to sign this petition:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/140002

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

Date submitted 25 June 2016
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