(A) There is created the Registration and Elections Commission for Sumter County. There are seven members of the commission who must be appointed by the Governor upon recommendation of a majority of the Sumter County Legislative Delegation, including the senators, who are appointed for terms of two years and until their successors are appointed and qualify.
(B) However, three members must be appointed for terms to expire January 1, 1995, and four members for terms to expire January 1, 1997. At the expiration of their terms their successors must be appointed for terms of four years.
(C) A vacancy on the commission may be filled by appointment in the manner of original appointment for the unexpired term only.
(D) The members of the commission, the administrator, who must be the chairman of the commission, and staff receive compensation as may be appropriated by the county council.
(E) The commission shall divide the commission into two administrative divisions during the period from the effective date of this section until the general election of 1994. One must be the registration division, and the other must be the election division. The commission shall appoint a person to be the director of each division. After the general election of 1994, the members of the commission may organize the staff of the commission as it considers appropriate.
(F) The office of Commissioners of Election and the Registration Board for Sumter County are abolished. The powers and duties of the Commissioners of Election and the Registration Board are devolved upon the Registration and Elections Commission for Sumter County created in subsection (A).
(G) The current members of the Sumter County Election Commission and the Sumter County Registration Board shall act as the governing commission of the new Sumter County Registration and Elections Commission established in this section until such time as the seven members of this commission appointed in the manner provided by this section take office. At this time, the terms of these former commissioners of election and registration board members expire.
(H) The Governor shall remove any member of the commission who in the opinion of the delegation fails to attend a sufficient number of meetings of the commission.