But a cyber-scuffle among supporters of both Town Council District A candidates rages on. In one corner is dot-org. In the other is an unknown dot-com.

DavisandHighHouse.org, a political action committee of slow-growth activists, filed a complaint with the State Board of Elections on Wednesday, arguing that the unidentified creator of a Web site called DavisAndHighHouse.com broke elections law.

The dot-org version has been around for years and supported Lori Bush, who narrowly lost Tuesday's runoff against incumbent Jennifer Robinson.

The original group formed in response to a planned development at the intersection of Davis Drive and High House Road.

It is credited with organizing voters to help Cary Mayor Harold Weinbrecht unseat former Mayor Ernie McAlister in 2007.

The dot-com version cropped up just before Tuesday's election. It closely resembles the home page of the dot-org version, and says its mission is to "preserve Cary as one of the best places to live, with the lowest tax rate of any town in the Southeast -- by exposing the NIMBYs for what they are."

NIMBY is an acronym for "not in my backyard."

In its complaint, filed by treasurer Vickie Maxwell, DavisandHighHouse.org says that on the day before the election, the dot-com knockoff sent a misleading e-mail to voters that made it appear as if DavisandHighHouse.org was endorsing Robinson.

"The person or persons responsible for the Web site and e-mail have not followed North Carolina campaign finance laws," Maxwell wrote in the complaint. "They have clearly advocated against a candidate (Lori Bush) on their Web site; and they have specifically endorsed a candidate (Jennifer Robinson). They have done both anonymously."

Maxwell did not return a call seeking comment.

It's unclear who created the dot-com Web site. The identity of the owner of the domain name, which was reserved on Oct. 14, is hidden through an out-of-state internet services company.

Robinson said she received an e-mail about the Web site, but had purposely not seen it. "I didn't want my campaign to be associated with it in any way," she said.

She said people who voted in the runoff had probably made up their minds by the time the site appeared. "I don't think it had an effect on the election," she said.

Karl Thor, a steering committee member of DavisandHighHouse.org, said he didn't know who was behind the dot-com site, but did not think it was anyone with Robinson's campaign. "I'm speculating it was an overly exuberant (Robinson) supporter," he said, describing the act as "silly" and "sophomoric."

"People should be made aware that it's not the right thing to do and that it won't be tolerated," he said.

Adam Ragan, a compliance specialist with the elections board, said he would investigate the issue. The legislature has made no laws regulating campaign Web sites, he said, so the elections board would have no jurisdiction over the content of any site.

But, he said, there could be a violation of law if, for example, a group were operating as a political action committee without being registered.

It would be highly unlikely that such a complaint would overturn election results, Ragan said. "Just from my initial reading, it doesn't look like there were any candidate or candidates involved," he said.

This is the second elections complaint by slow-growth advocates who backed Bush.

In September, Van W. Kloempken, a founder of the group, filed a complaint saying that Robinson had manipulated campaign-finance reports to delay disclosure of developers' contributions until after her last election in 2005.

The board, though, closed the complaint days later without taking action against Robinson. She has said that complaint was baseless.