[MD Expat in PA]

The “R” under “voter type” stands for “Registered,” not for Republican.

The “R” under “Ballot Type” stands for “Regular,” not for Republican.

Good catch zeestephen but I think you got it backwards.

See page 32 of this 2013 Annual Report from the Board of Elections - The City of New York:

http://vote.nyc.ny.us/downloads/pdf/documents/boe/AnnualReports/BOEAnnualReport13.pdf

In the column Voter Type, the R stands for Regular Voter as opposed to: E-Special; F-Federal; H-R(Mail Address); M-Military; O-Overseas or P-Permanent Absentee. I am not sure what all those designations mean but none of them have to do with party registration. Military, Overseas and Permanent Absentee are fairly obvious, but I can’t find any keys or designations for the others. But it has nothing to do with party registration at the time the vote was cast.

Ballot Type would be R for Regular or A for Absentee.

On the voting record print out, the registration date is the date the person first registered to vote in Manhattan (and Trump has said that prior to 1987 he was registered in Queens), and the Enrollment, i.e. Republican, would indicate the voter’s party registration at the time the printout was made.

[DB]

That explains a lot if that last document is real. Do you believe it to be real? When that image was first posted it came from a Web site that has a dubious history on truth. I’ve not seen any other more official source for it - and it clearly the same image with all the distortion.