Prevention of false and misleading election campaign promotions

Rejected 18 signatures

What the petition asks

There is not sufficient regulation in place to protect the public from misinformation during electoral and referendum political campaigns. The lack of safeguards enables voting results to be strongly influenced using false and highly motivational rhetoric. Facts are obscured and voters are mislead.

Influential, non-fact based rhetoric has been employed to successfully promote electoral campaigns. The result is that the public are misinformed when casting their ballots. Following the elections / referenda, the public can feel that they were deceived.

This is most relevant where extremist views are used to influence emotions. In 21st century Britain, there are no safeguards in place to prevent the democratic system from being hijacked using methods employed in early 20th Century Germany.

Why it was rejected

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

Create an independent authority to fact-check political campaign materials.

Timeline

26 Jun 2016	Petition opened for signatures
5 Jul 2016	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 18

Status Rejected

Rejected 5 Jul 2016

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