In what has become arguably the ugliest political season ever, campaign signs are disappearing all over Marquette County in droves.

Predictable? Probably. Acceptable? Not in the least.

Top politicos from both major parties report signage – the kind that people pass by and notice every day – is being stolen at an alarming rate.

Marquette County Republican Party Chairman Brendan Biolo said his office has received dozens of calls from people voicing complaints.

The culprits’ main target: Signs advertising the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump.

“We’ve found a couple with four-letter words spray-painted on them. Others have just disappeared,” Biolo said for a Mining Journal story. “The last call was the one that put me over the edge. An individual from Gwinn had seven signs taken within two days.”

Over at Democratic Party headquarters in Marquette, similar sentiments are being expressed.

Hillary Clinton signs are missing, they said.

“We haven’t seen too many problems with the other campaigns, but Clinton signs seem to be a target,” Simon Foster, Marquette County Democratic Party office manager, observed.

The police are on it and are considering suspects but no arrests so far.

Here’s are a pair of suggestions we’d like the thieves to mull: With the end of the campaign at hand, 1) leave the signs alone and 2) vote on Nov. 8.

Mining Journal (Marquette)