The special election set for Tuesday, when Republican delegates in House District 63 will choose a replacement for the recently resigned Rep. Dean Sanpei, could be called a family affair.
Because District 63 covers nearly all the student housing complexes for Provo’s Brigham Young University, it has a large transient population moving in an out after semesters. Many of those students become delegates but don’t stay through their full terms.
When Sanpei announced in early December that he was leaving the Legislature to take a job in Colorado, Lines set out to find replacements for 24 absentee delegates out of 55 total slots.