A common experience in most developing countries is the struggle and bloodshed that countries have gone through to install a multi-party system as a path to democracy. One-party rule, which was previously the electoral practice in most developing countries, has led to traumatic events of authoritarianism. In India, the dominant one-party system has remained vibrant since they found ways to incorporate liberal democracy. (Speiss, 2009, p5) Voting pattern and behavior in Kenya follows the ethnic and economic divide; voters believe that the ethnic group that wins the polling place is the ethnic group that would gain power and control. An ethnic group believes that if the president or a particular minister is from their ethnicity, unemployment cases will be dealt with efficiently. Furthermore, wealth will be distributed more based on their location than an equitable distribution and therefore, when voters go to vote, they do not do so for the better of the country but for their own ethnicity. Another determining factor in the voting patterns discovered in Kenya is that voters want to associate themselves with the winning team; they believe that the incumbent party will retain the glory and as such will not “waste” their vote on a party that is destined to lose on the merit of being in opposition. Kenya is heavily influenced by ethnic blocs and alignment by virtue of being a multi-ethnic nation. Unlike other developing countries where religion is said to play a key role in the electoral process, Kenyan voters are not easily inclined to the religious path. A case in point is the 2007 general election and the 2010 constitution referendum. During the 2007 general election, most of the church's clergy took politics to the pulpit... in the middle of the newspaper... at the international conference on the electoral system and electoral politics. Pp 22. 2-3 November 2006.Speiss Clemens. Democracy and party systems in developing countries: a comparative study between India and South Africa. 2009, Routledge: USA Bratton Michael and Bhavnani Ravi. "Voting in Africa: ethnic, economic or strategic?" paper submitted for presentation at the Africa seminar, Department of Political Science, MIT, November 19, 2009. pp 1-46.Chamarbagwala Rubiana & Ranger Martin. “Son Preference, Voting Behavior and Missing Women in India,” April 25, 2006. pp37. Retrieved from www.cid.harvard.edu/.../docs/neudc07_s5_p05_chamarbagwala.pdfGary, Prevost & Harry, E. Vanden (2010). Chapter 6: Latin America Region. New York: SAGE.Sullivan Mark P. “Venezuela: Political Conditions and U.S. Politics” Congressional Research Service, July 28, 2009. pp. 64