Mayor Rob Ford (open Rob Ford's policard) was kicked out of multiple advance polling stations across Toronto for illegal campaigning on three consecutive days last week.

After the mayor was asked to leave voting stations on both Thursday and Friday, the city clerk emailed Ford a letter on Saturday, warning him he was breaking the Municipal Elections Act.

Later that day, Ford visited a polling station in Ward 17 and ignored an election official’s requests for him to leave — instead he was seen posing for photos and talking to voters, City of Toronto spokeswoman Jackie DeSouza said.

“There was no evidence the mayor was campaigning on the site or telling people how to vote. However, only electors, elections staff and scrutineers are permitted in the voting place so he was asked to leave,” she said via email.

The mayor being kicked out of polling stations was a first in municipal politics for the city, Ryerson University politics professor Myer Siemiatycki told the Star.

“I’m pretty sure we can chalk this one up as another first for the Ford mayoralty,” he said. “There is no precedent for this kind of thing.”

Ford was told to leave a polling station in the Driftwood Community Centre in Ward 8 Thursday and one at the Domenico DiLuca Community Centre in Ward 7 Friday.

On Saturday, the city clerk emailed Ford a letter stating he had been seen spending “considerable time at the facilities talking to voters even after voting place staff requested that you leave.”

Legislation prohibits anyone in a voting place from attempting to directly or indirectly influence how a person votes, the letter read.

Ford is not allowed to remain in voting stations anywhere other than in Ward 2, where he is running as a council candidate, it said. The same day the letter was emailed to the mayor, he drove an elderly woman to a polling station in the J.J. Piccininni Community Centre in Ward 17. An election official asked him to leave, DeSouza said.

The mayor ignored this request, went upstairs and was “greeted by members of the public; people were taking pictures with him,” she said.

The election official followed Ford and again told him to leave. He left after meeting up with the woman he had driven to the polling station.

An email and phone message to Ford’s campaign staff were not returned Sunday. However, Ford told CP24 he was only trying to make sure people got inside the polling station “safely.”

“I’m going to go and I’m going to help people vote. That is what my job is,” he said. “People want a lift, so I drop people off.”

Siemiatycki disagrees with Ford’s stance, saying his actions could “reasonably be regarded as trying to sway voters.”

Posing for photos at polling stations “crosses the line and goes beyond just dropping off voters,” he said.

At a mayoral candidate’s event Sunday, Doug Ford (open Doug Ford's policard), who is running for mayor in his brother’s place, told reporters there was nothing wrong with Rob going to polling stations.

“He’s not handing out literature, he’s not wearing any Doug Ford or Rob Ford buttons,” he said.

Mayoral candidate Olivia Chow did not attend any advance polling stations, campaign spokesman Jamey Heath said.

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“It’s not okay to campaign at polling stations. Voters have the right to vote without influence from Rob Ford or anyone else,” he said.

The advance polls opened on Oct. 14 and as of Saturday night 124,798 people had voted.