Refusal for Cause is adaquate. Get it back to them and you best be able by one means or another, prove that you got it back to them. - process server, Registered Mail etc.
Your signing it with a legal name, even with a notary may work against you but I do not know that for sure. I have some ideals I apply with suitors, including an expensive evidence repository at the US courthouse. In an honest world you should be able to write Refusal for Cause and hand it back to them - and it is over.
One fellow had a traffic matter and he met me. We did the R4C on IRS stuff. But he caught on quickly and went into the first arraignment like you agreed to because it was too late (3 days had passed). They gave him that yellow notice of the next hearing and he wrote Refusal for Cause on it. Then he walked up to the bench saying:
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Let the record show that this Presentment is Refused for Cause and returned to the Presenter.
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He put it on the magistrate's bench and left.
I thought that pretty amazing. He kept no copy for himself and if he ever needed to prove the R4C he would have to rely on the municipal court's record and tape recorder. But then this suitor was a former Army Ranger too. Not very easily intimidated those guys.
Regards,
David Merrill.