Rejected petition Opportunity to oppose e-petitions

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Reading through the list of e-petitions, there are some very curious and in some cases almost frightening suggestions.

I propose that as well as being able to sign a pro-vote in support of an e-petition, there should be an option to sign an anti-vote in opposition to it.

The relative numbers of pro-votes and anti-votes would give a much better indication of the overall opinion of the population than just counting pro-votes, and any petition with more anti-votes than pro-votes could be automatically held to be rejected.

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.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 7 January 2012
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