If the Libs are forced to conduct polling in Bragg, how worried must they be about neighbouring Hartley, Morialta and Unley? asks Mike Smithson.

Almost anyone, anywhere in the state could expect an automated phone call or text message from a mysterious and unknown mobile phone number over the coming weeks.

If you choose to answer or respond to this suspicious-looking communication, there’s every chance it’s authorised political polling from the state Liberal party.

There’s nothing illegal about this process, but it’s likely that you’ll receive it during evening mealtime and it’s almost certain to be a nuisance you can do without.

How and where pollsters access personal mobile phone numbers in specific electorates is another question altogether.

Adding to the secrecy and intrigue is that there’s no obvious political branding articulated by the gormless, mechanical Robocall voice which left me scratching my head as to which major or minor party had initiated it.

My wife’s text message approach the following evening allowed her to dig deeper and discover it was authorised by Alex Hyde, the State Director of the Liberal party.

Hyde wouldn’t be drawn into specifics but told me this week the party “never takes a single vote for granted”.

He promises a statewide approach to winning or retaining seats, as he and many other party- faithful recover from the recent federal election train wreck.

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