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Civic election candidates say more signs are going missing and getting vandalized this year than in previous elections – a reality one political expert calls “puzzling.”

Losing hundreds of signs – and hundreds of dollars – between them, incumbents and political rookies say the attacks on their election signs feel personal.

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“I have to say that really I’ve never seen it like this,” Coun. Phil Squire said.

Squire was elected in 2014 after serving on the London Catholic District school board.

“It’s not the normal sort of tomfoolery. This is a whole different scale. Last time, signs got vandalized, but this time, it’s a consistent, large amount of sign removal.”