Rejected petition Allow British Citizens living in the EU to vote on UK leaving the EU

There are many British Citizens living in Europe who were denied the right to vote due to the 15 year rule, a rule that will change in September. We the undersigned call upon H M Government to allow them to vote on whether the UK should leave the EU and hereby have a say in their own future.

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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/137601

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Date submitted 27 June 2016
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