UPDATE 5.30pm: A GROUP of bikers was rebuffed today when they offered to hand out how-to-vote cards for Labor at a Townsville booth.

The bikers arrived at Willows State School in Thuringowa to protest against the LNP’s bikie laws.

They offered to hand out how-to-vote cards for Labor candidate Aaron Harper but Labor volunteers declined.

A spokeswoman for the Labor campaign said they declined the bikers’ help as they didn’t know who they were.

“We instructed them not to hand out how-to-vote cards as we don’t know them,” the spokeswoman said.

There was also tension at the Mundingburra State School polling booth when about a dozen bikers turned up to confront LNP incumbent David Crisafulli.

The bikers, some with Freedom Riders Queensland insignia, rode in to the school just after midday to express their anger over the Newman Government’s controversial anti-bikie laws.

The group spoke to Mr Crisafulli for about 10 minutes, expressing their anger over the impact the laws had on bike raiders, rather than outlaw motorcycle gangs.

One man said friends were hassled at a funeral in the Burdekin after a friend’s death.

Members of the group called out to voters to put the LNP last on their ballot papers.

Mark Webb, who was with the group but says he is not part of any group or club, said “everyone who rides a bike is not a criminal”.

The group rode off, without casting a single vote at the polling booth.

Mr Crisafulli maintained his composure, even shaking hands with several of the bikers before they left.

Afterwards, Mr Crisafulli said the group had a democratic right to express their views.

“The irony is the debate was about laws that supposedly curtail freedoms, a debate that occurred on a day which is all about freedom,” Mr Crisafulli said.

“One (of the group) said he felt victimised because he had tattoos and rode a bike.

“My father has a bigger bike. They say the laws stop them associating but they turn up as a group and give me their views.”

The group was not one of the prescribed outlaw motorcycle groups under the VLAD laws.

Meanwhile, small-scale exit polling suggests Mr Crisafulli will hang on to the seat of Mundingburra, albeit with a smaller margin.

It was neck-and-neck between the ALP and LNP, according to votes.

Voters gave a mixed bag of reasons for casting their vote, with ALP supporters citing jobs as a key factor.

One LNP supporter said the ALP “spends like drunken sailors”, while another believed they deserved another term after “fixing the mess left by the ALP.