Winning someone's vote in modern Australia requires a kind of cluster-bomb approach on the part of political parties.

With communication these days such a multi-faceted thing, and the opinion polls so tight, every method — from social media to the old-fashioned landline phone — must be harnessed.

We asked you what your experiences have been. Your responses were spirited and, sometimes, downright strange.

Here's a handful of ways the parties are trying to secure your support.

By sending text messages

Angeleen Bennett, a lifetime Liberal voter who lives in the safe LNP electorate of Bowman, east of Brisbane, has received two text messages from her local Liberal candidate, Andrew Laming.

"I'm annoyed," she said. She is adamant she has never given her mobile phone number to the party.

"I hate people spamming me again and again and again, and I do not like people spamming me this way on my mobile.

A text message from Queensland MP Andrew Laming. ( Supplied: Angeleen Bennett )

"The honest truth is this: I have always been a Liberal supporter, but I don't like the way they are contacting people. I don't like the way they are scaremongering and putting the fear into the community. I just don't like the approach."

The Liberal Party did not respond to a request for comment.

But sometimes the candidate's name is spelt wrong

Labor is using text messages, too, often urging voters to back the party in order to "save Medicare".

In the case of Reid, a marginal seat in Sydney's western suburbs, the candidate's name, Angelo Tsirekas, wasn't quite right.

Labor looking for support in Reid. ( Supplied )

Or they come from the candidate's personal number

Labor's candidate for Brisbane, Pat O'Neill, has been texting from his "personal [mobile] number".

"If there is anything I can do to help, this is your direct line to me," he says in the message.

Mr O'Neill told the ABC he was getting lots of texts and calls from voters, and was spending half his day on his phone.

In the message, he mentions his 18-year military career, which included a stint in Iraq. Earlier in the campaign, he complied with a request from Defence to remove billboards in Brisbane that depicted him in uniform.

However, he said Defence had raised no issues with the mentions of his military career in the SMS.

"My military career is my background," he said. "People should know the background and the experience of their candidates."

Pat O'Neill's pitch to voters. ( Supplied )

By making robo-calls

Kathryn Ridge, who lives in Manly Vale, in Tony Abbott's Sydney seat of Warringah, said she received an automated call on her landline from the Department of Human Services telling her the pension had been increased.

"I answered the phone, I said hello, and it said 'this is a message from the Department of Human Services, we are ringing to advise that the pension has had an increase recently, and we wanted to make sure you are aware of it'."

At which point Ms Ridge hung up, because no-one in the house was on the pension.

"I got the impression that it was a recorded message from a department," she said. "It's just, we've never had that message before, and I think it is strange it should come in an election period."

The Department of Human Services told the ABC the call didn't come from them — they don't tell people about pension increases, especially not using an automated call.

Some calls feature politicians, others don't

The voice of ACTU boss Ged Kearney has also been used in robo-calls, telling voters that putting Labor first on the ballot will "save Medicare".

"It was totally automatic, so no opportunity to contribute anything, and it was sort of peak meal time last night," said one recipient.

"My understanding is that the Do Not Call Register is completely overruled [during] federal elections."

That's true.

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Even if you have signed up to the Australian Communication and Media Authority's Do Not Call Register, you can still be contacted by parties, candidates and pollsters by phone during an election.

According to ACMA, some calls are covered by the rules, others are not. For example, if a caller is "trying to sell you something or … seeking donations", there are certain times they cannot call you. If they are just "providing you with information", their conduct is not covered by the regulator.

PM Malcolm Turnbull has also been making pitches to voters by phone — or rather, a recording of his voice has. Other senior Liberal figures, including Julie Bishop, have done the same.

Sometimes you get unsolicited emails

Gail Matheson has received "three or four" emails from Labor candidate Terri Butler, despite not living in Ms Butler's Queensland electorate.

A part of an email from Labor candidate Terri Butler sent to voters ( Supplied )

"The first one was on the day the election was called and Ms Butler was trying to introduce herself to the community," Ms Matheson said.

"The one the other day was about the Medicare business — that she had promised to keep Medicare as it is, not privatise it, which I believe is a load of rubbish, because the Government is not going to do anything about that."

Ms Matheson is not sure how the party got her email address.

"I've never had any contact with Ms Butler because I am not in her electorate," she said. "I really am not very happy they've got our email address from somewhere."

The Spam Act allows political parties, during an election, to send you emails you haven't signed up to receive. But, once again, that doesn't explain how the party gets hold of email addresses.

The Labor Party did not respond to a request for comment.

And sometimes you get really weird emails

Robyn, whose small business is located in Andrew Wilkie's Tasmanian electorate of Denison, received what she called a "bizarre" email calling Mr Wilkie an "overpaid politician aboard the gravy train" who had sold out on his principles.

She said the email had no subject line and contained no information on the sender.

"I didn't really like the tone of it," she said. "And I thought it's interesting who's behind it."

The ABC approached the sender, who said they did not work for any party, but were single-handedly sending "thousands" of emails to people across Australia to warn of a "cover up" and the "misappropriation of funds" involving various politicians.

Asked how they got people's email addresses, they replied: "The internet."

There are even chatbots

The Liberal Party has been using a Facebook Messenger service that automatically responds to requests for information sent to the Liberal Party of Australia page.

The bot, understood to be developed by a US digital consultant using an off-the-shelf platform, can tell people about the candidates in their seat and where the party stands on major issues.

The US website TechCrunch called bots "one of the hottest tech topics of the year" — after all, even the ABC has one. (That's @ABCNewsBot on Twitter or via Facebook Messenger, by the way. Ahem.)

Some bots, depending on the kind of permission granted by Facebook, get access to some personal information about those contacting it.

It's not clear what kind of information, if any, the Liberal Party is able to gather in the process of answering your queries.

And one candidate is handing out bottles of water with his face on it

"Fella's got his face on water bottles and he hands them out at the train station in the mornings," one voter in Dunkley, who declined to provide a name, told the ABC.

That "fella" would be Chris Crewther, the Liberal candidate hoping to win the marginal seat, which is outside of Melbourne and being vacated by retiring minister Bruce Billson.

An image shared on Mr Crewther's official Facebook page seems to confirm the tactic.

The Liberal candidate for Dunkley Chris Crewther, and others, with water bottles that bare Mr Crewther's name and face ( Facebook: Chris Crewther - Liberal for Dunkley )

Happy Birthday! Love from your local candidate

Voters in marginal seats have reported being sent birthday cards by their local Liberal Party members.

One voter received a card from Nicholas Varvaris, the Liberal member for the seat of Barton in Sydney's south.

The seat, on a margin of 0.3 per cent after the last election, became notionally Labor late last year because of a redistribution, with Mr Varvaris now facing a tough fight against Labor's Linda Burney, a former New South Wales state MP.

And sometimes you're just trying to enjoy a film...

Patricia Rayner, who lives in the electorate of Boothby, recalls being frustrated by a "three-minute" Labor advertisement that screened before a comedy she and her girlfriend went to see recently.

"It wouldn't have made any difference which party was responsible — it was an unacceptable decision for people who have paid to see entertainment," she said.