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The B.C. Liberal incumbent in Delta North admits he made a mistake when he chose to sign the nomination papers for the rival B.C. Green candidate in his riding.

Scott Hamilton said Wednesday he realizes, in retrospect, he shouldn’t have helped B.C. Green candidate Jacquie Miller gather the required 75 signatures by adding his name to her nomination form when she came in to his constituency office before the election.

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“I didn’t know who she was, and she had the guts to walk into my office and ask me, and I saw nothing wrong with it,” said Hamilton.

Under B.C.’s Election Act, a person may only sign one set of nomination papers during an election. Hamilton also signed his own nomination paperwork. Elections B.C. said while that’s not allowed, it’s also not an offence under the act that would carry any penalty beyond one of Hamilton’s signatures being declared invalid.

“I guess you are only supposed to sign one,” Hamilton said in an interview. “There’s some print on the form somewhere that says that. I never noticed it.”