Rejected petition Lower the voting age to 16

Because if your allowed to have sex at 16 why can't you have the vote and I feel that some 16 year olds know more about what they are voting about than many adults and that it will affect the 16 year olds more than older aged adults.

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/269437

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Date submitted 23 September 2019
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