CHEYENNE — When former state Sen. Darin Smith, R-Cheyenne, officially resigned after seven months in office to take on his new role as interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Wyoming, a replacement needed to be selected.

Monday evening, the Wyoming Republican Party hosted an event in Guernsey that allowed party committee members to cast votes for who they want to see fill Smith’s vacancy.

Out of 10 candidates who signed up for nomination, the top three were selected on Monday by party voters. On Friday, county commissioners from Laramie and Platte counties will select the new state senator from among those three finalists.

The votes of the commissioners will be weighted according to the population encompassed in each portion of Senate District 6, which is composed of all of Platte Cou

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