Sussan Ley and Steve Martin are following the Liberal Party template in a bid to win the postal votes in Farrer and Indi.
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The candidates sent letters to homes with a pitch, plus an Australian Electoral Commission form to request a postal vote.
The catch is the reply paid envelope is addressed to the Liberal Party's Melbourne PO Box, rather than the AEC, allowing the party to track how many voters have taken in its message.
The letters in Indi and Farrer have slightly different wording - Ms Ley addressed hers to the "resident" and Mr Martin to the "voter" - but they both include the same five-point Liberal plan for jobs, a budget surplus, tax relief, investment in schools and hospitals, and secure borders.
Ms Ley's letter has her argument about irrigators' water, one of the most contentious points of the campaign, highlighted in bold.
"As your local MP I will not stop until the Murray Darling Basin Plan is responsive and flexible to the needs of all our water dependent communities. I remain committed to a full review of the rules around water allocations and entitlements," she said.
Both referred to fixing roads and building mobile phone towers and ended with the same plea for voters' support to "secure your future'.
Mr Martin's letter also reminded voters of his work history and the visit to 50 towns in 50 days to start his election campaign.
"As an engineer, I know what it takes to deliver infrastructure. I'm working for you on what's important for our community," he said.
Retiring Indi MP Cathy McGowan used a similar tactic in 2016, sending letters to residents saying if they wanted a postal vote application, they could contact her office and her staff would organise it for them. The responses of 2000 people were relayed to the AEC office in Wangaratta, which provided the voters with postal vote forms.
"There's a transparency thing about it that people are getting annoyed with this time because it's not clear that it goes back to someone in Sunshine, it doesn't actually go to the AEC," Ms McGowan said.
"Helen's campaign is not doing that this time, there's no postal vote letters."
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