PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC-T party has called on supporters to "pray and even fast" for change as the country braced for Wednesday's crunch elections.

In a statement Tuesday evening, the party's national organising secretary, Nelson Chamisa said: "We're calling on all Zimbabweans to pray and even fast for change, and for a smooth transition. We have done our best in campaigning, we expect God to do the rest.

"We are further calling on all Diasporans and Zimbabweans in urban areas to send messages of encouragement to strengthen their parents and relatives in the rural areas who are under siege from Zanu PF who are using certain village heads and chiefs to commandeer and frogmarch people in polling stations to produce an artificial vote for Zanu PF."

The MDC-T is hoping to end President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF party's three-decade long stranglehold on power in Wednesday elections.

Although the party shared power with Mugabe over the past four years after violent but inconclusive elections in 2008, it was always clear that the veteran leader had the upper hand in the fractious coalition administration.

Chamisa however insisted that Tsvangirai would emerge the winner after Wednesday's vote and usher in a new era for the country.

"There is no way Zanu PF can win an election in this country, this is why they have resorted to beating up people, soft violence and intimidation which is rampant in some parts of Mashonaland provinces and parts of Masvingo and the Midlands," he said.

"A new Zimbabwe is definite, as the sun rises tomorrow (Wednesday), a new president is emerging, and certainly a new dispensation of democracy and good governance. It's game over for oppression, tyranny and Stone Age tactics of dictatorship. It's game over for the forces of darkness."

Party spokesman, Douglas Mwonzora added: "With only hours to go to the elections it is clear that the MDC has already won these elections.

"The bumper crowd of 120,000 that constituted the 'Cross Over' rally in Harare (on Monday) is clear testimony that Zanu PF and Mugabe are headed for a crushing defeat.

"Already the state media has already started to prepare the nation for a runoff election and have started to pin their hopes on Welshman Ncube to split the presidential vote and possibly force a runoff election."

The MDC-T, which unsuccessfully pushed for the vote to be delayed, has however expressed concerns over preparations for the elections and raised fears about possible electoral fraud.

Mwonzora said organisational bungling by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) as well as intimidation over voters by Zanu PF had been scaled up ahead of the vote.

"Faced with this inevitable defeat, the state machinery has now embarked on a number of measures calculated to interfere with the vote," he said in a statement.

"We have discovered that ZEC wants to slow down the voting process in urban centres particularly in Harare by reducing the number of voting points on each polling station.

"We are told that some of the polling officers will deliberately embark on a go slow just as they did during the voter registration exercise. This will definitely disenfranchise millions of voters.

"Lately Zanu PF has (also) embarked on serious cyber interference as a way of closing down communication platforms such as Whatsapp, Bulk text messaging as a way to curtail flow of information as voting progress.

"Another sinister intention is to shut this election process to the world. We are also aware that Jonathan Moyo is behind the prohibition of airing of the MDC adverts. We will lodge our displeasure with the relevant bodies, the AU, COMESA and SADC.

"(In addition) there has been a sudden surge in cases of arrests of MDC officials and activists by police lately. Our chief presidential election agent Morgan Komichi, is still languishing in cells after being denied bail, hours before elections."