Make breaking the rules in elections/referendum a criminal offence

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

It has become self evident in recent years that certain amount of flouting of the law around electoral behaviour has been happening. This corrupts our democracy, these laws were brought in to level the playing field for all candidates in a free and fair election.
Fines are not an adequate deterent.

Fines don't work as these are just written off as election expenses which means the wealthier can ignore our laws, that is not acceptable.
Anyone found flouting these laws should have criminal action taken against them and be removed from any government office

Why it was rejected

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

Petitions need to call on the UK Government or Parliament to take a specific action.

Breaching electoral law can already be a criminal offence. We aren't sure how you'd like the law to change.

You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do.

Timeline

14 Aug 2019	Petition opened for signatures
21 Aug 2019	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 21 Aug 2019

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