A record 110 candidates - standing for 44 parties or as independents - are vying for just six Senate seats available to NSW.
With nine out of 10 NSW people expected to vote above the line on their Senate ballot paper it's likely a distorted 'last-person standing' scenario dictated by preferences could deliver a plumb, six-year Senate appointment to a complete unknown.
Everyone from an actor, pilot, train driver, truckie, muso, farmers, men of the cloth, even a Phlebotomist are vying for your approval.
"The political parties - the minor and micro parties - have just swapped preferences like a giant game of twister," ABC election analyst Antony Green fumed.
"This senate election is an outrageous fiddling of the electoral system.
"It is an international laughing stock to have the situation where people need magnifying glasses to vote, to try and find the candidate they know among the flotsam and jetsam of people who have been able to get on the ballot paper because of the loose criteria," Mr Green argued.
Political lightning rod Pauline Hanson is tipped to be one of the beneficiaries and could even knock out Liberal high-flyer Arthur Sinodinis who has been earmarked for a junior cabinet position if the Coalition wins office.
Ms Hanson - who in the past has polled more than four per cent of the primary vote - would need only half that support and add what are expected to be hundreds of thousands of preferences to return to federal parliament.
Major parties' response "laughable"
"They are saying now that the system is being abused because it is not in their (the major parties) favour ... that is quite laughable," Ms Hanson chirped.
"It's been in their favour all these years and now they are squealing like stuffed pigs because their system is going to beat them this time.
"If they were doing their job properly, so many parties and so many independents would not be putting up their hand to stand," Ms Hanson continued.
It is a delicious irony for Pauline Hanson after the major parties used the system to prevent up to four One Nation senators from being elected in 1998.
At the 2010 Federal election a gaggle of 84 NSW candidates stood for the senate and 97.76 per cent of people voted above the line.
The micro-parties won 14 per cent of the vote and with the avalanche of extra candidates in 2013 - in concert with disillusioned Labor supporters - their collective vote could balloon to 20 per cent - easily enough for a Senate quota.
Just 12 weeks into his fledgling political career 24-year-old Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party senate candidate Daniel Kirkness says he is excited by the broad spectrum of candidates.
"It just shows that the people of Australia don't think they are being heard," Mr Kirkness said.
"People don't form a political party and run for the senate just for something to do or for fun.
"There's a lot of the minor parties which in some cases represent the views of the majority of Australians," Mr Kirkness added.
What's in a name?
Pirate Party candidate David Campbell admits running with a catchy name is designed to attract attention.
"It definitely hasn't been a detriment to us within the Australian political realm," the 29-year-old father-of-two explained.
"There's always a little bit of 'Arrrrgh, me Hearties' going on but we don't encourage it."
Mr Campbell explained the Pirate Party started out as a movement in Europe against "increasingly abusive laws targeting citizens who shared culture and information on the internet" and was pushing for legislative changes to copyright and patents.
"The copyright industry has chosen to label us and our generation as pirates and we've taken that name for ourselves with pride," Mr Campbell said.
"It is a worldwide movement with several Pirate Parties in Europe holding seats in their respective parliaments and in the European Parliament."
Mr Campbell is far from a career politician.
"Until a few years ago I couldn't give a stuff," he laughed.
"I started to get into it when it became apparent that the government wanted to censor the internet.
"The on-going obstinance of the government has provoked me into it," Mr Campbell continued.
For more information on how to vote below the line go to Antony Green's blog.
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