Rejected petition: Prevent Government from stopping the democratic right to vote.
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Pass a law that establishes the requirement for Government to abide by the democratic right to hold ALL scheduled elections for all levels.
Currently our local May elections have been postponed for 2 years and this is now to be extended for 3 more years.
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.
You may wish to sign this petition, which calls for similar action: "Remove power to cancel local government elections" https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/747234
We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.