(d) Selection of the members of the commission shall be
subject to the following:
(1) Following the general election in a year of a Federal
decennial census, the Secretary of the Commonwealth shall
prepare a list of possible candidates for membership on the
commission. The list shall be prepared by randomly selecting
registered voters in this Commonwealth and shall include each
person's party registration or affiliation. Each person on the
list shall be assigned an ordinal number according to the order
in which the person was randomly selected. The list shall be
provided to the majority and minority leaders of both the Senate
and the House of Representatives, or deputies appointed by each
of them.
(2) The majority and minority leaders of both the Senate and
the House of Representatives, or deputies appointed by each of
them, shall meet as necessary to determine the members of the
commission or to fill a vacancy on the commission, in accordance
with the following:
(i) The person on the list under paragraph (1) who has been
assigned the highest ordinal number remaining shall be
considered for membership on the commission.
(ii) During the consideration for membership of the person
under subparagraph (i), the majority or minority leader of
either the Senate or the House of Representatives, or deputies
appointed by either of them, may object to the membership of the
person only on the grounds of ineligibility under subsection
(c). Upon objection, the majority or minority leader of either
the Senate or the House of Representatives, or deputies
appointed by either them, shall present evidence of the
ineligibility of the person for membership on the commission.
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