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Brendan Fischer's article is one of the clearest, most informative and best written on the topic of ALEC and that organization's pursuits of incarcerating for profit. Minorities are/have been specifically targeted nationwide for incarceration - mostly due to disparate drug related legislation. Most of those incarcerated lose their right to vote permanently in many states. Those members of minorities that are able to avoid incarceration have been subsequently subjected to voter suppression legislation to reduce their numbers at the polls. The fact that ALEC is responsible for all the legislation related to increasing criminal justice pursuits, incarceration and lengthening sentences...and for drafting the voter suppression and voter ID legislation now washing over every state, is the important part of this story about Wisconsin and Walker. Without the existence of ALEC to draft, adopt and send the legislation sought by their corporate members to every statehouse, most of the terrible conservative based agenda such as Truth In Sentencing and Three Strikes, would not be possible. Nor would the current flood of legislation designed and intended to suppress the ability of minorities to vote. Again, great article and expose.