Petition · past parliament

Reject the 2016 election vote as unreliable due to cheating on both sides

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

EU referendum result to be rejected - lies on both sides of campaign blocked a properly informed vote; Overspending skewed reliability of outcome; Hard push from the main stream media to vote Leave influenced vote; Cambridge Analytica influenced and biased result. No democratic value to biased vote
'National press coverage was highly polarised, with pro-IN papers emphasising pro-IN campaigners and arguments, and pro-OUT papers emphasising pro-OUT equivalents. In aggregate terms, this produced a ‘coverage gap’ of 60%: 40% in favour of OUT campaigners. However, when these differences are weighted by circulation, the difference extends to 80%: 20%.': https://tinyurl.com/hkzkj3z
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Why it was rejected

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

Timeline

8 Jul 2018 Petition opened for signatures
9 Aug 2018 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21
Status Rejected
Rejected 9 Aug 2018

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.