IEBC officials registering voters in Eldoret town. Omari explains what is likely to happen on elections eve. [Photo: the-star.co.ke]The night before August 8 polls will be a key determinant on who wins the presidential poll.High Court advocate and Political analyst Danstan Omari has said that the night before the election is usually an emotive time when many voters finally decide on how to vote including the undecided."There will be the commercial aspect of this night before elections. Money will decide. Whoever gives money on the night before voting is likely to carry the day. Take it or leave it," Omari told Citizen TV's Extra show on Wednesday.He added: "This is the time that the most of the undecided make their minds because, for them, they have to be paid to go and vote. That percentage of paid voters constitute a huge junk of votes."He noted that pollsters have never captured the essence of money on the election eve, 'the reason why they always get it wrong when results are finally out'.Omari added that the night before voting, this is usually when the 'tribal/clan/village positioning' take place. This, he said involves how various groups finally decide on how to vote. "The conversation basically involves how communities and other smaller groups will go about voting. Instructions are going to come telling people how to vote. There will be an aspect of fear in those messages that if they don't vote in a particular way, there will be dire consequences. "Where there seems to be a split of the vote among members of one community say in Bomet County, voters will be whipped in one direction on that night before the election. And you can be sure that is the path that the voters will follow," the analyst said.

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