SUBJECT---NOTICE IN COMPLIANCE WITH 42 USC 1973gg-9(a)(1)requesting investigation into ballots not being in compliance with Mo. election laws; misuse of public funds to promote certain candidates and defraud the public from knowing of the other candidates; improper handicapped and disabled voting opportunities; use of intimidation, threats, and jail to discourage voting, voter registration, and interfere with a free and fair election; the potential for vote fraud and past pattern of "election irregularities" that nothing has been done to correct; and lack of compliance with preserving the integrity of the election through removing dead persons from the voter registration rolls.

1. Election materials vendors have legislated for their own profits and thus interfered with the free and fair election process. And for the additional purposes of confusing voters and confusing a judge or anyone who might try to prove vote fraud they have created ballots which are not in substantial compliance with Mo. laws. Although 115.231 RsMo. and 115.237 RsMo. conflict with each other, in part, no where has the Mo. General Assembly authorized ballots as are being used for electronic tabulation by most of the election authorities for election 2000.

a. The ballots as used this year are confusing, sometimes do not even contain the party emblem, never seem to have the caption below the party emblem as required by 115.241 RsMo, and never states the name of the office over and over with each candidate's name. An unfair advantage is certainly given to the two major party candidates as the ballots are arranged and candidates of the minor parties are lost in the shuffle. Most ballots do not even spell out the name of the party by the candidate's name and often two party names align with the candidate's name, ie. Nat.Law Candidate Name Ref---what a confusing mess.

b. Horizontal and vertical lines do not extend clear across the ballot in most cases and in fact the chaos may have a box drawn most anywhere. Missouri law requires the horizontal and vertical lines to direct people to their choices without trying to confuse or influence how they vote.

c. Ballots are not supposed to have stray marks or anything that might influence a vote or confuse people. Buchanan County has added shaded areas near some names on the ballot.

2. I am aware of the following public universities who refused to permit participation by all candidates and chose to give essentially free ads to major party candidates through discriminatory forums---Lincoln University, Jefferson City, September 5, 2000 and Truman State University, Kirksville, October 4, 2000(update 10/11/00---I understand the Kirksville event was cancelled). )Update 10/31/00 PBS refused to recognize anyone except the two so called major party candidates for debates and refuse to recognize candidates from the 5 other parties or the independent candidate as valid although all requirements have been met for being on the ballot and I certainly have been campaigning statewide. Missourinet refuses to recognize anyone not on the two so called major political parties, links to their web sites, and slants the "news" propaganda style against other candidates. Kansas City Star refuses to print facts regarding my candidacy acting as if Gaw, who has not even campaigned, and Blunt are the only candidates qualified for secretary of state. Frontline a so called non partisan St. Louis based publication distributed in churches and by mailings printed deceptive lies claiming the presidential nominees represent positions of candidates for other offices and refusing to print either my bio nor my platform.) Propaganda based on deception and lies used under the guise of "news" and nonpartisan information is against the spirit and laws of the form of government we have.

3. Missouri has not met the federal deadline for complying with voting for the handicapped and disabled. The legislature did not appropriate funds to insure compliance nor update the laws to require compliance. I don't know of any election authority providing voting instructions in large print nor through telecommuications devices for the disabled. I also know many places are not providing handicapped accessable polling places, but are choosing to embarass and disenfranchise disabled voters by asking them to stay out on the sidewalk for a ballot to be taken to them and
a Republican and Democrat watching them vote and delivering the ballot back inside in full view.

4. I have personally been the victim of considerable intimidation and threats to try to discourage my promotion of free and fair elections. Prior to the primary election the City of El Dorado Springs had the police surrounding my home, alarming neighbors, beating on doors and windows and the ambulance showing up at my home. All under the pretense the police department had a right to deliver an outdated letter from the city attorney insisting I must prove who I was as a new resident of the city although I have lived at the same residency since April, 1997. That week of terrorism was during the anniverary of my brother's murder near El Dorado Springs and the city attorney profitted from his estate. The next day after I won the primary the city police again were beating on my door and the U.S. Postal Inspector and a Mo. Department of Mental Health coordinator left their business cards at my door. In parades the Republicans have repeatedly surrounded my car and blocked the public from viewing my campaign signs. Thus far the police have refused to stop them. (Update 10/11/00 on 10/7/00 Matt Blunt's assistant tried to block my car from view, but failed when the St. Louis County Sheriff's department did their duty upon my request.) Richard Kline, Reform Party candidate for Mo. Governor, was arrested before the primary, in St. Charles County courthouse for campaigning inside the courthouse. Steve Reed, who was in general trying to register voters and helping with the federal campaign of Doug Burlison for U.S. Congress against Republican Roy Blunt, was arrested on Southwest Missouri State University campus and jailed on a trespassing charge. SMSU President Keiser has stated to me personally that Republican Party Greene County Clerk, Richard Struckhoff, who also admitted in 1996 he destroyed write in ballots with votes on them and who bragged in 1998 after he moved some voters from one precinct to another just before the election; had claimed Reed never turns in voter registration cards, collects names probably to sell, and never had his permission to register voters. Unfortunately Keiser's insistence Struckhoff can write rules as to who can register people to vote in Greene County continued as KTTs radio refused to air the interview they did of me claiming Reed did not have the proper permission to register voters.

5. Missouri's election problems go back to 1985 when then Mo.Governor John Ashcroft, then Mo. Secretary of State Roy Blunt, then Mo. Attorney General(now felon) Bill Webster, then Mo. House Speaker(now felon) Bob Griffin, Mo. Senator (then president pro tem)James Mathewson and some election vendors reached one or more agreements to ensure elections could be manipulated for the profits of those cooperating with the Mo. organized criminal enterprise. The pattern of some of the above problems go back to the mid 1980s as well. Years of use of the wrong ballots, progressively worsening of intimidation and police state tactics, and discouraging most people from actually voting does not make these issues lawful.

6. Missouri has a pattern of so called "election irregularities" at almost every election in recent years. The wrong ballots get to a precinct, but someone rules it really doesn't matter because what are a few ballots worth anyway. A name is wrong on the ballot, but again "so what". The polls run out of ballots and people leave the polls to never return or others vote on copy machine copies, but it doesn't matter because afterall it is just an election and a few people not voting really isn't a "big deal". And the list of irregularities and same stupid rulings that the importance of one person, one vote no longer matters. Add to that all the ballots that are "remakes" where a so called Republican and Democrat team make the ballot card over as to what they think the voter meant; and while they talk and pay little attention and often question whether what they mark is what they saw. And add all the ballots where the voter is thoroughly confused by the instructions which if present at all certainly are often not written simply. Why doesn't Missouri strive for perfectly lawful elections?

7. For the purposes of this notice being made public on line I am adding the pertinent laws below. I have not copied them for the hard copy delivery to Secretary Cook.

8. It remains my hope and sincere desire that there will be new beginnings for free and fair elections in Missouri with the election 2000. I would love to see Secretary of State Cook leave office with a legacy that she broke the cycle Roy Blunt started in the destruction of voting integrity in Missouri. I make the following requests and suggestions, any one of which would be a step in the proper direction:

a. That the Mo. Secretary of State's office request an investigation by the U.S. Attorneys, Western and Eastern, of Missouri of all or in part, or any one of the points made above.

b. That the Mo. Secretary of State ask the vendors of election materials and election authorities to voluntarily comply with Mo. election laws regarding how the ballots are to appear.

c. That the Mo. Secretary of State seek a declaratory judgment from a court of law as to which Mo. ballots, if any, comply with the law.

d. That the Mo. Secretary of State provide to each election authority and each election materials vendor a copy of 42 USC 1973ee and 42 USC 1973gg.

e. That the Mo. Secretary of State make sure the statewide voter registration system does not have dead people registered to vote.

f. That the Mo. Secretary of State do a major public relations campaign to educate voters how to vote, including how to mark a split ticket ballot.

g. That the Mo. Secretary of State ask the Greene County Prosecuting Attorney to ask for a special prosecutor and that Greene County Clerk, Richard Struckhoff, be charged with violations of election laws. (One election authority ever charged of a violation of election laws would quickly straighten out most of the "problems" some of the others seem to have. Conviction of one certainly would be a deterrent for future thumbing their noses at the election laws.)

h. That the Mo. Secretary of State dismiss Betsy Milner as Deputy of Elections.

i. That the Mo. Secretary of State invite the candidates for the office of secretary of state and 5-10 multi-party reps. of others interested in the integrity of elections to voluntarily assist her and work with each other to help reassure the public we can have a free and fair election 2000.

Marvalene, the following letter was also sent via U.S. Mail.

October 10, 2000