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A candidate in last year's Manitoba provincial election has been found to have forged two signatures on her nomination form.

A report from elections commissioner Bill Bowles says Gabrielle Simard-Nadeau, who was running for the Green Party in the Steinbach constituency, was having trouble collecting the 50 signatures required to qualify as a candidate.

The report says Simard-Nadeau spoke with a friend who said two relatives would be willing to sign, and Simard-Nadeau forged their signatures because there was no time to meet with them before the deadline.

Simard-Nadeau was approved as a candidate, but Elections Manitoba announced on the day before the election, without an explanation, that she was withdrawing.

The commissioner's report says Simard-Nadeau was an inexperienced candidate who fully admitted to the forgery and took responsibility.

The commissioner has the authority to recommend charges be laid under the Elections Act, but is not doing so in this case.