From Deseret News archives:
Corroon is ahead of Ivory
Independent Merrill Cook came in at 6 percent.
"We'll have to wait and see," Corroon said. "I said from the first that it was going to be close."
The race may come down to the approximately 5,000-7,000 provisional ballots, as estimated by County Clerk Sherrie Swensen, that will not be counted until the official canvass on Nov. 16. The results also don't include the approximately 18,000 absentee ballots cast before Nov. 2 in which Corroon led Ivory (who was a write-in candidate during part of that time) by about a two-to-one margin.
"It's only fitting that the end would be a drama," Ivory said. "The whole campaign has been a drama. I feel good if I win, I feel good if I lose."
In the past eight months the mayor's race has gone through a series of controversies, investigations, court battles, intrigues and political maneuverings that University of Utah political science professor Tim Chambless calls "unprecedented almost unimaginable."
At the end, Ivory's poll watchers found five precincts that had not put his name on the ballot, an oversight that was quickly corrected with few, if any, votes affected.
Ivory said he will not file any complaint in the matter.
"Frankly, I think it's amazing that it was that few," Swensen said.
The saga began with the "guzzle-gate" scandal last May. Then, in June, it was revealed that Mayor Nancy Workman was being investigated for her hiring two county-paid employees who had worked for her daughter at the Boys and Girls Clubs of South Valley, the thing that ultimately brought her down.
The Republicans hung with Workman for a time, but further revelations that she had paid her daughter's former boyfriend for county computer work that was never done sealed the deal for many party members; they voted Oct. 5 to withdraw their support from Workman and give it to Ivory, founder of the state's largest residential developer Ivory Homes, a Republican who had announced himself as a write-in candidate.
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