forcing a server to be primary as described in
http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Forcing+a+Member+to+be+Primary
using command
db.adminCommand(

)

and then stopping the daemon on the new master seems to prevent an election
of a new primary at least for the 20 minutes I waited.

It may be advisable to update the dos on the above page to warn admins that if they preformed this process the system may not recover from a failure.