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Fake how-to-vote cards are being distributed at polling booths in Dickson, advising minor party voters to place the under-threat home affairs minister, Peter Dutton, ahead of his Labor challenger, Ali France.

How to vote card in Dickson, Queensland.

The “Vote for Queensland” cards are authorised by a local, whose home in the suburb of Petrie has a Peter Dutton sign in the front yard.

The material purports to tell minor party and independent voters how to support their candidate. In each case, it suggests Greens, Animal Justice party, United Australia, One Nation and independent voters should direct preferences to Dutton.

The Greens’ official how-to-vote cards direct preferences to France. Those preferences will likely be critical to the final two-candidate-preferred result.

