How can we make candidates follow campaign rules

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The current MMDA Chair, Oscar Inocentes, was interviewed by Tony Velasquez regarding the MMDA's campaign to remove campaign materials that are put up outside the Comelec's poster areas. I understand the Chairman's frustration that they have to play garbageman when there are more pressing matters to attend to at this time. He expressed his frustration with the candidates that are not doing anything to guide or stop their supporters from putting up posters just about anywhere. His men have been threatened and given the run-around by local officials and their police. He intends to fight back and file cases against these people. On one hand, you can understand the candidates' fervor in ensuring that his name and face is plastered all over the place. They would rather incur the ire of the MMDA than be lost in the sea of anonymity. On the other hand, I see Chairman Inocentes' point about these candidates who benefit from the proliferation of their posters as people without breeding as they openly violate election laws even before being elected. But how do you stop the supporters from plastering all over when they are paid by the hour? Should candidates be prosecuted and punished for the acts of their supporters as beneficiaries of the crime? Should we disqualify candidates who are found guilty of violating this law? if they win, should we allow them to swear to uphold the very same law that he violated before being elected? It's time that we voice our opinions.