Results from the recent elections show the Top-downican candidate winning by a slim margin.  Proponents of Chris Mullen claim vote tampering and other general "shadiness" from some of the L510 users.  "The election seemed very fair," commented Nasko Oskov, a SIGMil chair coincidentally voted Member of the year.  "Shady?  I don't know what you're talking about... Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go bail someone out," he later added. 
      Mullen issued a press release urging an official investigation to "divine the will of the voter."  SIGOps chair Kuan Chen has offered to head up the investigation in return  for a pizza budget.  Meanwhile, fellow Bottom-upocrats are filing freedom of information requests to try and prove the rumors that members of defunct groups SIGBio and the Be Users Group "voted" in  this election. 
     Many analysts feel that Green LED Party candidate Shahrukh Syed helped make the election this close by taking liberal votes away from the Bottom-upocrat Mullen with his policies of change and increased freedom.  Exit polls show that Syed managed to garner votes from the back room of the office, especially with the pro-choice MacWarriors. He also appears to have won over IFV with his lack of knowledge about the debate that had been raging in recent Exec meetings over the Sachs Alien & Sedition Amendment.  Syed is well known for his book on the 8086, "Unprotected at any speed.