This petition was submitted during the 2010-2015 parliament
Rejected petition e-petition should have both vote-for and a vote-against
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An e-petition currently only has a vote-for button and hence some one who objects to the e-petition has no way to voice their objection.
I propose that a new option 'vote-against' is introduced. If someone objects to the e-petition they click vote-against.
I don't think that an abstention button is required but this is a further refinement if necessary.
The criteria for passing to the back-benchers may need to be redefined:
eg retain status quo - more than 100,000 fors
or more than 100,000 net votes
or more than 100,000 total votes
Perhaps the arbitrary 100,000 should be replaced by 0.1% of UK population (approx 70 million) ie 70,000.
NB. A low net vote with high total votes indicates contention and may need to be debated anyway.
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