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Voting Rights Issues for Adults Under Guardianship 2022

Product ID: CA3388D
Presented By: State Bar of Wisconsin PINNACLE

This program is an excerpt from Election Law in Wisconsin 2022.

Guardians and liberty

In September 2022, a group of legislators in Wisconsin asked the Wisconsin Elections Commission to remove adults under guardianship orders from voter rolls. Advocacy groups like the Wisconsin Disability Vote Coalition pushed back, arguing that the legislators were misinterpreting state law.1 Under federal law, states may prohibit people who are under guardianship due to mental impairment from voting. But what does Wisconsin law say about the issue?

Find the answer at Voting Rights Issues for Adults Under Guardianship, where you’ll examine:

  • Allowable limitations on the right to vote
  • How courts decide whether a person lacks capacity to vote
  • The process that people under guardianship must follow to restore their right to vote
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This program is an excerpt from Election Law in Wisconsin 2022.

Guardians and liberty

In September 2022, a group of legislators in Wisconsin asked the Wisconsin Elections Commission to remove adults under guardianship orders from voter rolls. Advocacy groups like the Wisconsin Disability Vote Coalition pushed back, arguing that the legislators were misinterpreting state law.1 Under federal law, states may prohibit people who are under guardianship due to mental impairment from voting. But what does Wisconsin law say about the issue?

Find the answer at Voting Rights Issues for Adults Under Guardianship, where you’ll examine:

  • Allowable limitations on the right to vote
  • How courts decide whether a person lacks capacity to vote
  • The process that people under guardianship must follow to restore their right to vote
Read More ↓

Mitchell Hagopian is a Managing Attorney with Disability Rights Wisconsin (DRW), Wisconsin’s protection and advocacy agency for people with disabilities and mental illness.  Before joining DRW in 2001, he worked at the Elder Law Center, the Center for Public Representation, and Western Wisconsin Legal Services.  He is a 1985 honors graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School.  He received his undergraduate degree in history from the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (Phi Beta Kappa, 1981). 

Mr. Hagopian’s legal career has been devoted entirely to serving low-income and unrepresented populations.  His areas of practice include community based long term care services and supports for people with disabilities, guardianship and protective placement, and prevention of abuse and neglect of people with disabilities.

He has appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court in Wisconsin Department of Health & Family Services v. Blumer, 534 U.S. 437 (2002), a case involving the Medicaid spousal impoverishment prevention protections. He represented Judy K. in Dunn County v.  Judy K., 2002 WI 87, the Wisconsin Supreme Court case that required counties to affirmatively show “a good faith, reasonable effort to find an appropriate placement and to secure funding to pay for an appropriate placement” for individuals subject to Wisconsin’s protective placement statute.  

  • Advise and assist adults under guardianship with access to voting
  • Understand when and how the right to vote may be limited for adults under guardianship
  • Learn how to help clients under guardianship restore their right to vote
  • Government lawyers
  • Administrative lawyers
  • Constitutional lawyers
  • Elder law attorneys
  • Guardians ad litem for adults
  • Municipal clerks
  • County clerks
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