Rejected petition Implement verification into these petitions to prevent easy abuse of the system.

At least basic user verification should be implemented to make it harder for people to abuse the system by hacking, or using "bots", or scripts to unfairly influence petitions on the petition.parliament.uk domain.

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By adding a simple Captcha verification button for example, people would not be able to write scripts to fill out the petitions automatically, thus making it much harder to misrepresent UK citizens.

An example where this has happened is:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/131215

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This petition was rejected

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.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/156720

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

Date submitted 26 June 2016
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