§20923 Membership and Appointment

Summary

Creates a four-member commission. The President picks the four members and the Senate must confirm them. Before the first appointments and before filling any vacancy, the Senate and House majority and minority leaders must each send the President a recommended candidate for any vacancy tied to the political party of the Member of Congress involved. Each member must have experience with running elections or studying elections. All appointments had to be made no later than 120 days after October 29, 2002. Members normally serve 4 years and may be reappointed once. At first, two members were picked for 2 years and two for 4 years (no more than one in each pair from the same party). Vacancies are filled the same way as the original appointment, and members stay on until their successors take office. The commission picks a chair and a vice chair from its members for 1-year terms; they cannot be from the same party, and a member may serve as chair and as vice chair only once during their appointment. Members are paid at the Executive Schedule level IV rate (see 5 U.S.C. 5315) and must end any other job or business before serving.