First they'll review the votes to make sure that all are from legitimate accounts, and not just ones made for the sake of voting for a specific candidate to keep the ranks close. This exact thing happened on the RaiderZ forum, and resulted in the third-place candidate actually being the second-place candidate, with…
After reading the 3 posts, I had to go with experience. Good luck to the 2 moderators (when they are selected)! EDIT: And don't worry, I've been around for a while, just never posted here. ;)