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July 9, 2016 07:16 am PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/NCmyI5w3Ymc/uk-government-rejects-brexit-d.html
UK government rejects Brexit do-over petition with 4.1m signatures
Prior to the UK's EU membership referendum, a pro-Brexit activist named William Oliver Healey set up a petition on the Parliamentary petition site (which guarantees that the government will "respond" to any petition with more than 100,000 signatures) calling for the referendum to be re-run if the outcome was closer than 60%:40% or if voter turnout was less than 75%. (more…)
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/NCmyI5w3Ymc/uk-government-rejects-brexit-d.html
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