MDC leader Welshman Ncube is confident that "the people will speak" during Wednesday's general elections through voting for his party.

Ncube will vote in the poor township of Makokoba in Bulawayo at 8.30AM confident that his party will prevail, MDC secretary general Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga said.

"We're clear that by the end of the day on Wednesday, reality will hit home," Misihairabwi-Mushonga said, speaking on election eve.

"We will, all of a sudden, know whether all those numbers others were claiming went to their rallies were from those places. We've no worry about that issue, it would be interesting.

"We're confident that given environment we had, we were able to speak to people and we now take a back seat and let the people speak. We think people will speak on Wednesday."

The MDC is very much the third party in the election race, with President Robert Mugabe's Zanu PF and the MDC-T led by Morgan Tsvangirai seen by many as front runners.

The party is aiming to improve on its 10 MPs that it got in the 2008 parliamentary elections and has targeted dozens of marginal seats in its power base of Matabeleland and the Midlands where it lost narrowly to the MDC-T.

In Bulawayo, the party is aiming to wrest some of the 12 seats from the MDC-T's clean sweep during the last election. Party heavyweight David Coltart has been thrown in to reprise the Bulawayo East constituency after standing for the Senate in 2008.

Ncube is also quietly confident of bridging the 173-vote deficit which denied his party in Luveve, the 545 votes in Magwegwe, the 692 in Pumula and the 233 votes in Bulawayo Central.

In 2008, Ncube's MDC was strongest in Matabeleland South where it beat Zanu PF and the MDC-T to second and third respecively.

Any lost seats for Tsvangirai in Bulawayo and Matabeleland South could dent his chances of winning the presidency with Zanu PF support seen firming in its Mashonaland strongholds.

Misihairabwi-Mushonga said her party was concerned over the late delivery of the voters' roll which she said was littered with mistakes.

"There're many things we're unhappy about regarding the election preparations. We're very unhappy about voters' roll and also unhappy about way the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission accredited our polling agents... we have concerns whether our people will be there at the opening of polling," she said.

"The voters' roll, some of us who have gotten sight of it for instance in Gwanda Central people were moved from their wards. We're not sure whether there will be people with computers to direct voters to where they're registered."

Unlike the MDC-T which has been accusing Mugabe of plotting to rig elections, the MDC says it has no such concerns.

"Even if someone wanted to rig, the mood is that people will come out and vote in such numbers it won't matter. We're looking at one of the biggest turnouts since 1980. If rigging is there, it will be around the voters' roll and special votes. But we still believe that the people of Zimbabwe will prevail."

Polls open at 7AM and close at 7PM on Wednesday. Voters will choose councillors, House of Assembly candidates and the President.