There are many ways of telling a rigged elections. 2007 was rigged. The turnout in Mt Kenya was off charts. The MPs/ Councillors didnt correspond. Kibaki could not govern without Kalonzo or NARA. The violence that erupted shows it was brazenly rigged. Martha appointed all comssioners bar Kiviutu who rigged the polls. Unlike all other elections...voters from Turkana and Mandera north...that would arrive late....came earlier than Mt kenya voters that were few kilometers from KICC. Kivitui acknowledge many ROS were unreachable.
The rigging was BRAZEN. Delay the strongholds - find out the gap - inflate the figures- win by 200K.
As regard opinion polls - they do get it wrong - sometimes deliberately - sometimes because they refuse to sample based on tribes.
Even this InfoTrak has some value....you'll see areas where it generally agrees with others - hapo if all of them say Raila is leading in Nyanza and common say so - then we take them seriously.
However dead give away is areas where opinion polls disagree - and in this election they disagree on almost everything - most specifically on undecided voters.
I wonder what people are waiting to decide?
The problem with Raila supporters has always been the failure to understand that opinion polls are just that..an opinion based on a sample of a few people that misses so many other parameters. The problem is so bad it turns very smart people into idiots. Just ask pundit who despite being very good with numbers still refuses to acknowledge Raila lost in 2007 when you put known numbers and facts on a spreadsheet i.e registered voters per constituency and election results. A very clear picture emerges that Raila lost then and will most likely lose this time unless something really big happens. I was having a discussion with a few of my buddies who think Raila will win but when I challenged them on the numbers one told me they have military intelligence working for them. Laughable at most.