- Jennifer Bindel, Equal Protection Jurisprudence and the Voting Rights of Persons with Diminished Mental Capacities, 65 N.Y.U. Annual Survey of American Law, 87 (2009).
- Nicholas F. Brescia, Modernizing State Voting Laws That Disenfranchise the Mentally Disabled with the Aid of Past Suffrage Movements, 54 St. Louis U. Law Journal, 943 (2010).
- Sally Balch Hurme and Paul S. Appelbaum, Defining and Assessing Capacity to Vote: The Effect of Mental Impairment on the Rights of Voters, 38 McGeorge Law Review 931 (2007)
- Ryan Kelley, Toward an Unconditional Right to Vote for Persons with Mental Disabilities: Reconciling State Law with Constitutional Guarantees, 30 Boston College Third World Law Journal, 359 (2010).
- Kay Schriner et al., Democratic Dilemmas: Notes on the ADA and Voting Rights of People with Cognitive and Emotional Impairments, 21 Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law, 437 (2000).
- Michael Waterstone, Constitutional and Statutory Voting Rights for People with Disabilities, 14 Stan. L. and Pol’y 421, 454 (2005).
- Henry G. Watkins, The Right to Vote of Persons Under Guardianship-Limited or Otherwise, 44-NOV Ariz. Att’y, 34 (2007). (Specific to Arizona, but good model for analysis)
- Yale Law Journal Company, Inc. Note, Mental Disability and the Right to Vote, 88 Yale Law Journal, 1644 (1979).
- Sharing the Dream: Is the ADA Accommodating All?, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights publication, Chapter One (2000).
- Harvard Law Review Association, Developments in the Law–The Law of Mental Illness: Voting Rights and the Mentally Incapacitated, 121 Harvard Law Review, 1179 (2008).
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