we're having some polling problems, so in keeping with our longstanding zero-tolerance policy we're going to take a step back.  lars and soto were within 1% or tied in the last two polls once you delete the somewhat-suspicious winners, so i'm going to put them in a runoff for a while while we sort things out.  

this is for slot #48 - bill rowell has been taken off the list for the time being.  

geo soto sounds like a car.