Stop on demand postal voting - only people with valid reasons should have one.

Rejected 15 signatures

What the petition asks

Postal voting was introduced in the UK in 1918 as a mechanism to provide people, who were physically unable to get to a polling station, a way to vote in a general election. In 2001 the Labour government allowed postal voting to anyone. This petition demands abolition of postal voting on demand.

Since 2001, there have been many examples of postal vote fraud as a result of being able to request on demand, and this needs to end in order to preserve the democratic system of the UK.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2578776/Scrap-postal-votes-elections-fixed-says-judge-warns-ballot-rigging-probability-parts-Britain.html

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/sep/06/men-jailed-attempted-postal-vote-fraud

http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN03667/SN03667.pdf

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

Change the Postal Voting System

Timeline

5 Dec 2015	Petition opened for signatures
7 Dec 2015	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 15

Status Rejected

Rejected 7 Dec 2015

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