Extend the final voter registration date for as long as possible.

Rejected 20 signatures

What the petition asks

If the final date of voter registration for the EU referendum can be extended, it should be and for as long as is feasible. The most recent debate was clearly sufficient to convince many more people to register, and this should be encouraged.

How thousands of people tried to register to vote last night:
https://www.gov.uk/performance/register-to-vote

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

Parliament agreed yesterday to a law which extended the deadline for registration. You can read the debate in the House of Commons here:

https://hansard.digiminster.com/commons/2016-06-09/debates/16060924000001/EUReferendumVoterRegistration

Timeline

8 Jun 2016	Petition opened for signatures
10 Jun 2016	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 20

Status Rejected

Rejected 10 Jun 2016

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