Rejected petition Lower voting age to 16 for the upcoming General Election

With our generation having already been barred from EU referendum and now with a surprise general election many of us will have to wait years to have our voices heard in terms of how our country is run.

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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://moderate.petition.parliament.uk/admin/petitions/195490

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Date submitted 18 April 2017
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