This petition was submitted during the 2017-2019 parliament
Rejected petition Britain's Electoral laws need to be overhauled to address 21stC issues.
This petition requests that Parliament commissions a study into the threats posed by misinformation about the issues to be balloted and the activities of agencies employed by or donating their services to any campaign group and then responds to those threats by enacting appropriate legislation.
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from the New Statesman : " political advertising is exempt from the regulation that would otherwise bar false claims and outrageous promises." lie.https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2016/06/how-brexit-campaign-lied-us-and-got-away-it
From a Guardian report
"An LSE report concluded UK’s electoral laws were “weak and helpless” in the face of new forms of digital campaigning.”.
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