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Two London mayoral candidates will be investigated for allegations of violating elections rules, which if upheld, could bar them from running again.

An independent auditor will be asked to review the finances of Paul Cheng and Paul Paolatto — both accused of violating the Municipal Elections Act by advertising too early — as well as consider another complaint against Cheng for putting too much of his own cash into his bid for mayor.

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“These pre-campaign campaigns, if they don’t stop, they’re going to become the new normal. That’s my fear,” Londoner Lincoln McCardle said of complaints he filed against Cheng and Paolatto for traditional and social media advertising, websites and other personal promotion ahead of filing their nomination paperwork with the elections office on May 1.

Thursday was the first opportunity to have those allegations heard by an independent committee, designed to keep tabs on possible violations of municipal election rules, as it met for the first time.