Rejected petition Make debating all petitions that reach over 100,000 signatures mandatory.

A number of petitions on the Government's petition website that have reached over 100,000 signatures have been dismissed with nothing but a few paragraphs of explanation without explicitly cited evidence. The public feels that this approach undermines the meaning of democracy.

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At the time of writing, two petitions with more than twice the required number of signatures to validate them for debate have been dismissed in what comes off as an arrogant and out-of-touch manner. Our government must respect public opinion and up-to-date scientific evidence on matters that warrant enough attention to gather over a hundred thousand supporters, and encourage debate on these matters rather than dismissing them.

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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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We cannot accept duplicate petitions. We think this petition is similar to yours:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/104933

You might like to sign this petition instead. It is more likely to get more signatures that way.

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

Date submitted 25 August 2015
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