Rejected petition Postal vote to be restricted to housebound disabled, military & students abroad

The practice of allowing postal voting on a widescale basis opens up the possibility of electoral fraud whereby people are able to vote for others with or without their consent.

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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://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/258370

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Date submitted 10 June 2019
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