Rejected petition Allow 16 year olds to vote!

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Allow 16 year olds to vote in order to encourage young people to participate in politics.

Set up a system that will allow 16 year olds who are interested in politics to sign up and vote!

* This is not a petition to allow all 16 year olds to vote, just those that highlight their interest by a specific date*

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Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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Date submitted 17 December 2012
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