NEW YORK, NY, Oct. 13 (DPI) — Social chat rooms and Facebook strings – forums in which voices are identified — tend to skew progressive-libertarian in political views,  supportive positions that don’t often trigger critical reaction from friends and peers.

So it was surprising then that a recent New York Times editorial, out across the internet, prompted mostly conservative reactions from readers away from NYTimes.com.

On the NYT site readers were mostly supportive of the newspaper’s position that personal IDs were a form of voter suppression, and were engineered by the Republican Party.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/10/opinion/the-myth-of-voter-fraud.html

But away from the Times site, the comments went more like this:

Facebook Comment #1: “What’s so wrong with proving who you are? Makes perfect sense to me. They ask for gov issued ID where I vote in NY. Am I misreading something?”

Facebook Comment #2: “If you don’t have ID, you shouldn’t be able to vote. What’s so hard about that?”

Facebook Comment #3: “I agree. Not having to show ID is *inviting* voter fraud. Which I don’t believe is a myth, but what do you expect from the NYT?”

#4: “If you don’t have the brains to get an ID, you shouldn’t be choosing our leaders.”

#5: “It’s a shame that we require US Military personnel stationed overseas to provide proper identification when requesting absentee ballots to vote in state and federal elections but there seems to be a problem asking all Americans to provide proper identification when voting. What should be one of our most cherished rights in this country where we ask our military personnel to provide proof while they risk their lives to protect our right to vote, and some have the nerve to??? …. (What) are people thinking! What’s good enough for our military is good enough for all Americans…”