Newspaper’s Trump cartoons tasteless
Up to your old nastiness again with not one but two tasteless cartoons downplaying Donald Trump as presumptive nominee for the presidency. You anti-, never-Trumpers don’t get it that he is the choice and will win handily while you continue to support a failed woman wannabe so bad she will say and do anything to take the prize.
And, even though you don’t give a fiddler’s flip about this backdoor discrimination, since when is it cool to depict the Donald as an ape and not that whey-faced figure of Obama in the Hope and Change caricature? Hmmm? You are in for a big surprise.
Yours truly, an Independent voter who votes for the man, not a hackneyed conservative or liberal.
MARY MCREYNOLDS
Eureka Springs
Vote center on campus will fight suppression
The May 11 editorial today made it seem [University of Arkansas] students are just too lazy to go to an existing voting station, and that is why they want one on campus. But I think the newspaper ignored some basic facts.
First, it is not so much a matter of getting there as of time spent parking and waiting to vote. Many students have jobs as well as full academic loads. Some have family responsibilities as well. Also there are more than 3,000 full-time staff members who could go to a nearby poll on their lunch hour, if one existed.
Then if you compare the UA student population (about 26,000) with the official population of Fayetteville (about 79,000) you can see that students account for about a fourth of the total number of people living here. It does seem that to serve one-fourth of the city’s population, another polling place could be added.
The editorial ignored the fact that in other parts of the country voter suppression has been directed against those populations such as minorities and students who tend to vote for more progressive candidates. It has taken the form of greatly limiting polling places in some parts of the city (Phoenix) so that citizens had to wait up to 5 hours to cast their vote. There have been efforts to limit student voting as in Wheaton College in Illinois and the University of Wisconsin. A mysterious leak of 191 million voters’ records last December has resulted in problems, such as many voters in the New York primaries who found their registration information had changed without their knowledge, often disqualifying their vote.
Voter suppression exists, unlike the fictitious problem of voter fraud that has led to so many state laws. Let us make sure that it doesn’t happen in Fayetteville.
CORALIE KOONCE
Fayetteville