Important:

This petition was submitted during the 2017-2019 parliament

Rejected petition Restrict postal votes to confirmed housebound & military service personnel.

To help reduce postal vote fraud by restricting the service to just those who are unable to vote in person.

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Numerous cases of postal vote fraud confirmed in the past plus the suspicion that it is a growing issue.

This petition was rejected

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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