Rejected petition Make online voting available to the electorate for national and local elections

As it stands, there are multiple methods for casting a vote (person, post, proxy) in order to maximise participation. However as large portions of our society live and work increasingly online, it is appropriate that it be made possible to vote online; this would also increase younger to voters

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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/120894

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Date submitted 27 June 2016
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