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VOTE 2012—It’s Your Right! Addendum to the 2008 Voting Rights Guide for People with Mental Disabilities (8/30/12): Replaces the 2008 chart “State Laws Affecting the Voting Rights of People with Mental Disabilities” in
- Guide to the Voting Rights of People with Mental Disabilities (73 pages; 5.5"x8.5" page size) (2008 with 2012 updated chart of state laws)
Restoring the Voting Rights of People Under Guardianship (PDF) | Word Version (8/30/12): Includes model motions, affidavits and orders that people under guardianship—or their family members or advocates—can use to restore voting rights taken away because a person with a mental disability has a guardian.
Model Letter to State Election Officials (PDF) | Word Version (8/30/12): Alerts state election officials to voting problems faced by people with mental disabilities, and describes federal laws that protect the voting rights of people with mental disabilities.
Chart of State Laws Affecting the Voting Rights of People with Mental Disabilities (8/29/12)
Chart of State Laws on Voter Challenges (8/29/12)
Summary and Links to Guardianship and Conservatorship Forms Provided by State Courts (8/29/12)
Absentee Ballot Requirements by State (8/29/12)

Protecting the Voting Rights of People with Mental Disabilties, Mother Jones (11/5/12)
Keeping the 'Mentally Incompetent' from Voting, Atlantic (10/17/12)
Kansans to Vote on Voting Rights of Kansans with Mental Illnesses, KCUR News (10/26/10)
Elections Board Won't Take Away Mens' Vote, Providence Journal (5/29/08)
Cranston Drops 2 Mentally Ill Inmates from Voter List, Providence Journal (8/21/07)
A Duty Denied: State law another obstacle for O'Fallon teen who considers voting a right, St. Louis Post-Dispatch writer's blog (8/21/07)
Disabled, Disenfranchised, St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial (2/26/07)