Saturday is polling day and the election campaign is almost over.

For Wagga people, this is the third trip to the polls in eight months, so voter fatigue is probably running very high. We had the byelection for the state seat of Wagga in September and saw the whole of NSW head off to the polls just two months ago.

It feels like there haven't been many weeks since last September that the city hasn't been papered with corflutes.

The 24-7 nature of the media cycle has teamed up with social media to present us with a near-constant flow of information, scandal, claim, counter-claim and funding promise.

But as easy as it is to understand that voters are sick of the slogans, promises and junk mail, we have to remain engaged with the process.

As annoying as politics might sometimes feel, it is still an extraordinary privilege to live in a country where we are able to speak out, criticise and vote against whichever party we see fit.

This week, The Daily Advertiser has spoken to some of Wagga's newest citizens.

Even the most jaded voter could not help but feel a little reinvigorated after talking to these proud new voters.

Take, for example, Constance Okot who moved to Australia in 2005 from Sudan, and cast her first vote as an Australian citizen in 2007.

"In Sudan, or rather Africa in general, there is a lot of bribery. They bribe people to vote for them, they will give money to make people vote for them or they will be at the voting stations telling you want to do and make you scared if you don't listen," Ms Okot said.

"There was a lot of pressure. If you don't want to vote for that person though, it is a problem, sometimes people are killed, there are a lot of killings because people are fighting for leadership. It's not always safe."

Election campaigns might be expensive, overblown and stuffed full of rhetoric, but at their base is still a level of democracy and freedom that people in many other parts of the world can only dream about.