Reduce the minimum voting age to 16.

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Yesterday we as a nation voted to leave the European Union. A vote in which more than 75% of 16-25 year olds voted to 'Remain', yet this vote will have the biggest impact on young people who had no say in this referendum. At 16 you can die for your country but you cannot vote to decide its' future.

This referendum is going to hit the young people the most. Overnight they have had the opportunity to live, work and study in 26 other European nations taken away from them.

This should not be something we repeat.

It is time to stop disenfranchising our young people and give 16 and 17 year olds a say in the future of the country that they must now live, work and study in, in a mess they had no part in making.

Why it was rejected

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

Reduce the legal voting age to 16

Timeline

24 Jun 2016	Petition opened for signatures
28 Jun 2016	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 28 Jun 2016

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