Fake how-to-vote cards distributed as part of a dirty tricks campaign involving how-to-vote cards won't fool Greens voters, the party says.
The fake cards are being distributed at polling booths in the Brisbane seat of Ryan, allegedly by Liberal volunteers and, last week, others were letter-boxed throughout the seat of Blair, allegedly by Labor volunteers.
Greens Senate candidate Larissa Waters told reporters at Kelvin Grove State school, where she voted, that she was not surprised by the display of gutter politics.
"It is exactly this sort of underhanded tactics that turns voters off the major parties and towards the Greens," she said.
"Instead of announcing policies with long-term vision to protect the environment, and give people a fair go, they are trying to fool Queenslanders.
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"Unfortunately... it's not unlawful to do this but it is misleading."
She said voters were too smart to fall for this tactic. "They won't be taken as mugs," she said.
Ms Waters, who voted alongside the Greens candidate for the seat of Brisbane, Andrew Bartlett, said she was confident of becoming the first Greens senator for Queensland.
A spokeswoman for the ALP Ryan candidate Steven Miles, told AAP she had witnesses Liberal campaign volunteers, wearing Green T-shirts, handing out the fake cards at a polling booth on Payne Road, The Gap.
A spokesman for LNP candidate Jane Prentice defended the actions.
"They're not fake Green how-to-vote cards, they're clearly Liberal National Party cards," he said. "If they're thinking of voting Greens we would like their second preference.
"It's clearly identifiable in accordance with the electoral act.
"They're not masquerading as Green volunteers at all, they're Liberal National Party supporters."
LNP communications manager Cameron Thompson said both Labor and Liberals were distributing in the cards in several seats.
"Bob Brown went into the media and said he didn't really support the idea of their preference deal and that voters should make up their own mind," he said.
"We're just out there to remind people about that and make sure they have our side of the story.
"There's nothing gutter about it."
