Rejected petition Make it compulsory for those who failed to vote in the EU referendum to vote.

There was not a clear enough majority in the EU referendum. We would ask that the government makes it compulsory for the none voters in this referendum (27.8% of the UK population) to vote.

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This would be a much fairer appraisal of what the whole country really wants and may lead to a different outcome.

We advise the government to perhaps carry out this supplementary vote by postal voting.

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.

Voting is anonymous in this country, so it's not clear how this would be possible.

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

Date submitted 9 July 2016
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