Tomorrow’s South Australian state election is expected to go down to the wire.

It is estimated that the ballot will come down to a handful of votes, in a handful of seats.

Experts are forecasting that Labor will retain government by the narrowest of margins, with only one seat going to an independent.

Which is why preferences are going to be so important.

Enter the Fair Tax party, headed by Greek-Australian mortgage broker George Kargiotis.

Mr Kargiotis is standing for an upper house seat, while ten of his Greek-Australian colleagues vie for lower house preferences.

The Fair Tax Party was founded earlier this year in protest against what Mr Kargiotis terms “unfair taxes”.

“We have real stories to tell,” he says.

“A pensioner forced to sell the family’s much-loved holiday shack because he was hit with a huge land tax bill he couldn’t pay.

“A young entrepreneur who can’t grow his business in his home State because payroll tax is killing him.

“Middle-aged couples who suddenly find the plans they made to take care of themselves in retirement are going to cost them more in tax than they’ll make in income.”

Despite only having 300 members, he is confident that his party can snaffle some votes and swing the preferences their way.

”Our preferences in the lower house will be going to the Liberal Party. They are in the nine marginal seats, and that is being deliberately done so we can swing those votes over,” he says.

“We know we’re a long shot but we’re optimistic, and we’ve done everything we can to try and get the best result we can on Saturday.”

But not everyone is convinced that his stance has the best interests of the majority in mind, accusing the Fair Tax Party of standing for the interests of wealthy investors.

“I can see that, but the way it works is that if you have a land tax bill, you’re going to try and recoup it from somewhere.

“Now it’s more than likely that if you own a residential property and you’ve got a land tax bill of $10,000, how are you going to recoup that?

“You’re going to recoup that by putting the rent up. Now the tenant’s going to be paying an extra twenty or thirty dollars a week. Who’s really paying for the land tax bill?”

Also running for an upper house seat is Director of the Plastic Surgery Department of the Royal Adelaide Hospital, Dr Jim Katsaros, for the Save RAH Party.

Dr Karatsos is standing to prevent the Rann government from spending $1 billion on a new hospital and instead wants to upgrade the current Royal Adelaide Hospital to a world-class standard.

In an open letter to South Australians, Dr Karatsos questions the Rann government’s commitment to improving health care standards.

“The state government says it has a plan for all Adelaide hospitals.  There is no evidence that it has any credible plans because it does not know how much money it is able to spend on our health system,” he says.

“In truth, we are all left to speculate about what it is trying to do about our future health.”