Want to know how many people in your area have signed a petition to 'cancel Brexit'?
An interactive online map shows that 1,487 people in the South Dorset constituency have added their signatures to a petition titled 'Revoke Article 50 and remain in the EU.'
It was only launched on Wednesday, but within 24 hours it had received one million signatures. Now more than three million people have signed the petition.
In West Dorset, 2,297 people have added their signatures while 1,678 signatures have come from North Dorset.
A paragraph accompanying the petition online says: "The government repeatedly claims exiting the EU is 'the will of the people'. We need to put a stop to this claim by proving the strength of public support now, for remaining in the EU. A People's Vote may not happen - so vote now."
Parliament's petitions committee said on Thursday (22) that nearly 2,000 signatures were being completed every minute, and the amount of people trying to access the petition caused the website to crash.
View the map here: https://bit.ly/2OhRfAj
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