For those who know Malindi and his local faces, the Uhuru Garden "square" from the dawn this morning is a familiar gallery of faces and smiles.
You can find the Indian hardware, the chef of your favorite restaurant, the boutique shop center, the askari of the villa near your home.
All to exercise the right to be Kenyans and the duty to have patience because "This is Africa".
Maureen admits he is in the queue of 5 and 30 along with another hundred people, while behind (they are already 10) a coil has been formed that envelops the gardens of the center of Malindi, turned into an open-air polling station and protected by two gazebo .
The square is a huge and peaceful gathering, with greetings and others who seem to have been given an appointment to exchange the last opinions.
Everyone convinced that peace will prevail and that if there ever were any incidents, it will be north of those towns where there is strong ethnic and political division.
"In Malindi if he wins Odinga's ODM, he will be a joyous party - is Kalume's thoughts, a spin-off guy who has been working for years in a hotel facility - and if Kenyatta remains at most a little boy, he can venture by knocking on his fists on Shackles of some kikuyu store ".
Police Officers help with this tidal and quiet tide of malindin.
Surely foreigners who decided to barricade at home, perhaps spurred on by the dramatic media campaign, chose the wrong day. If any problems arise, they would be tomorrow and after the days, certainly not today and hardly in Malindi.