As Cedar County Clerk, Marvalene Pankey, will insist on efficiency and total accountability for all of the numerous areas the office is responsible for. She will use her business and customer service knowledge, experience, and skills for effective management and live up to true statesmanship leadership through wisdom, ethics, integrity, patriotism, compassion, intelligence, rule of law and common sense.

She will ask for volunteers from the business, professions, and grassroots communities to serve as advisors to the office. Allowing the people to actively participate in the office will reflect her true belief all public offices should represent the voice and will of the governed.

Serving as the election authority is a major duty for county clerk's office. Because free and fair elections are at the heart of our liberties and because in recent years the percentage of eligible voters actually casting ballots has dropped, she will be pro active to increase civic participation by citizens of all ages throughout the county. She is concerned that voter registrations in Cedar County have also dropped at a time when most counties saw an increase in registrations and the population of the county increased. She will conduct voter registration drives in schools and the communities and encourage keeping the voter registrations current.

Eventually she will develop a special civics program for grades 2-12, including essay and art contests (with business sponsors), mock elections, youth participants at the polls, non partisan voters guide (at no cost to the taxpayers). She will also follow Missouri law that requires paper, hand counted ballots for questions that appear on the ballot and will consider paper, hand counted ballots or offering voters an option for paper ballots in all special elections.

She will search for a most cost efficient and accurate method of counting all ballots and strive to provide jobs for vote tabulation and printing of election materials for Cedar County citizens. She will make sure handicapped voters have large print ballots and handicap accessible polls as needed. All ballots cast and not cast or spoiled will be fully accounted for.

The bidding process for election materials and all other items needing bids will be announced to the public and local companies especially encouraged to compete.

She will have the office open at least one Saturday per month for four hours or more. And the last week before each election she will keep the office open until 6 p.m. for absentee voting in addition to being open on Saturday.. She will also have absentee balloting applications printed in the newspapers and available throughout the county.

With previous experience in grant proposals and her legal, investigative knowledge, experience, and skills Marvalene will try to make sure Cedar County and the communities therein obtain available funds and other assistance. She believes the County Clerk should be a promoter of economic development, jobs creation and retention. She is currently voluntarily hunting for funds to help with the archaeological dig near Stockton, Missouri and employers to replace the closing of Dunbrooke in El Dorado Springs.

She will also enhance and improve communication with all citizens. Instead of having to call long distance or travel to Stockton, citizens will be encouraged to e mail the office and a toll free voice mail will also be available. In addition, the county clerk will be in each community of the county at least one hour per month. And a radio call in format may be used. Plus a regular column will be given to all the newspapers in the county, informing citizens of their civic responsibilities, but also keeping them informed of the various activities of the office, including opportunities.

In addition to her many formal duties, as a service to the people and Cedar County communities and other public officials Marvalene will use her personal time to see that Cedar County, public officials, communities, schools, and organizations have an opportunity to have a web site and to have literature in special compact informational centers in public libraries, senior centers, etc. For each primary and general election she will also extend this free service to all candidates on a non partisan basis and will seek business supported ads to publish a voter's guide. Marvalene Pankey will strive to ensure voters are more informed and Cedar County is better known throughout the world.

In 1996 she managed a primary election campaign for office and had seven per cent of the statewide vote while spending less than $500. In 1998 she repeated that within five counties almost doubling her percentage of votes and again spent under $500. Marvalene Pankey knows how to set a budget and wisely make use of funds.

With Marvalene Pankey as Cedar County Clerk, public service and the office as an information place will have practical meaning. The people will know it is their office.

Marvalene Pankey is a never married, senior citizen (54) third generation native of El Dorado Springs, daughter of Gilbert and Nada (Lee) Pankey; grand daughter of Ed and Etta (Eaves)Pankey and Jobie and Mattie (Kneedler) Lee; sister to Mildred Lorene Marshall and Dwain Pankey; niece of Shelby and Fern Masters, Ted and Ethel Lee, Francis and Myrtle Eason, Eulice and Martha Pankey, Harry and Vera Cargill, Harley and Viva Turner. Sid and Muriel Pankey (who all, with exception of Lorene Marshall and Fern Masters are deceased). She is 1/4 German, at least 1/4 French, and 1/16 Choctaw Native American. Pankey is a graduate of SMSU (BSED, Springfield and MA from the University of Tulsa; plus has numerous other education and training, including a paralegal certificate and real estate broker's license.

Without attachment to partisan political ties she is free to serve all the people full time---statesmanship, public service without the politics. As one of the school administrators Marvalene Pankey taught under the supervision of stated, she will devote 110 per cent of her effort to serving as Cedar County Clerk. 110 per cent and more while listening to the people and remembering the voters are boss and Cedar County as an important place in the sovereign State of Mo.