Rejected petition Allow ability to oppose an e-petition

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E-petitions are useful. However simply allowing people to sign to state that they agree to a petition provides an unbalanced representation. Often there are plenty of people who oppose the petition but to make their views known the only option they have is to start another e-petition to oppose the first one.

E-petitions should allow somebody to sign it stating that they either oppose it or support it. That way a more representative level of support and opposition can be seen.

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.

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

Date submitted 30 August 2011
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