[tzs]

> Practically... it's a 52%/48% vote. Hardly a mandate. Some people say a revote might yield an opposite result, which means the current outcome is probably under the margin of error.

I think a good case can be made that in general close votes on this kind of thing should automatically have a revote in six months to a year, because seeing how the results were distributed geographically might change some minds.

For instance, perhaps many people who voted to leave did so on the assumption that the UK would remain fully intact after leaving, but now seeing the results from Scotland and Northern Ireland might fear that one or both of those will leave the UK and would prefer an intact UK as part of the EU over an independent UK that just has England, Wales, and Gibraltar.

It would also probably be a good idea to hold another vote after the negotiations with the EU on what the relationship will be after exit are done, or at least to the point that there is a good idea of what the relationship will be. If that relationship is better than stay voters thought the UK would get, some of them could swing to leave. If that relationship is worse than leave voters thought the UK would get, some of them could swing to stay.