§20943 Membership of Standards Board

Summary

Creates a Standards Board of 110 people. Fifty-five are state election officials picked by each State’s chief election official. Fifty-five are local election officials picked by the State’s local election officials under a process run by the chief State election official. Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands follow the same rule. For the District of Columbia, Guam, and American Samoa, the chief election official sets the selection method, but the person picked there cannot be in the same political party as that chief. The two members from any one State cannot be in the same political party. Each State’s chief election official must send two names to the chair of the Federal Election Commission within 90 days after October 29, 2002: the State official and the local representative. The FEC chair will publish a certification when it gets a State’s names. If a State misses that 90-day deadline, nobody from that State may help pick the first Executive Board. After the Election Assistance Commission is appointed, it takes over the FEC’s duties under these rules. Within 60 days after the last possible certification day, the Standards Board must choose nine members to be the Executive Board. No more than five can be state officials, no more than five can be local officials, and no more than five can be from the same political party. Executive Board members normally serve 2-year terms and may not serve more than 3 terms in a row. At the start, three of the nine will serve 1 term, three will serve 2 terms, and three will serve 3 terms. The Executive Board can do duties the Standards Board gives it.