Once considered rare, theft or vandalism of campaign signs seems to have become a regular occurrence each election. This year, it seems candidates endorsed by the Clark County Democrats have been especially targeted.

Randi Knott, a candidate for the Clark County Charter Review Commission, filed a report with the sheriff’s office on Oct. 27 after finding one of her 4-by-8-foot signs valued at $400 had been taken down, broken and thrown in the mud.

Knott said the Clark County Democrats received a complaint that her sign and another sign regarding affordable housing were on private property and needed to be removed. She said party chair Tim Probst investigated the complaint.

“He sent out a volunteer and when the volunteer got to the spot on Northeast 219th Street and Northeast 37th Avenue,

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