Allow 16 - 17 year olds the right to vote on their future in Europe

Rejected 12 signatures

What the petition asks

The younger generation have been denied the right to vote on an issue that will have a massive impact on their future access to travel, work and study in Europe.
16 and 17 year olds were given the opportunity to vote in the Scottish Independence Referendum and 75% used their vote.

16 and 17 year olds will be the generation that will be dealing with the aftermath of Brexit - and yet they have been denied the opportunity to have their say on it.
Online wiki and forum The Student Room conducted a poll - on the day the Brexit result was revealed - to find 82 per cent* of voters in the age group vote Remain.
With 1.46 million 16 and 17-year-olds in the UK - and with that 82 per cent voting Remain - the number would have matched the 1.2 million difference between Out and In, potentially changing the result completely.

Why it was rejected

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

We think the following petition is similar to yours:
Allow 16 and 17 year olds the vote in the upcoming EU referendum.

Timeline

30 Jun 2016	Petition opened for signatures
1 Jul 2016	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 12

Status Rejected

Rejected 1 Jul 2016

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