The envelope contains replacement stickers containing updated names of mayoral candidates that judges will affix to the ballot booklets should Ivory be certified as the GOP candidate.

"Heaven forbid that they should certify another candidate," Swensen said.

Workman's name has already been blacked out.

Democratic mayoral candidate Peter Corroon, while agreeing with the principle of the thing, is nonetheless urging his party leaders to stay out of the courts.

"We need to get on with the election," he said Wednesday. "I have faith in the good citizens of Salt Lake County that if the Republican Party won't comply, or if Nancy Workman won't comply, they'll see it as a ruse."

As for Ivory, he's facing a lot of potentially confused voters. He's running as a write-in, but if he is certified at the last minute and appears on the ballot, any write-in votes for him at that time would not count.

Nevertheless, he says he would prefer to be on the ballot.

"I'm a pragmatist in realizing it would be better to go on the ballot, even at the very last minute," he said. "I think the media would be quick to let the world know."

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