Just to add a little more clarification to the document referred to (I hate that I have to qualify this, I don’t participate much in this forum, but having previously worked at the Board of Elections in the City of New York and being somewhat of an expert, and also having taken the time to go to the public AVID terminals and actually look up the records here are the FACTS):
1. The Enrollment Part is the Current Party Enrollment
2. As previous posters noted the Voter Type indicates whether the voter was an R (Registered), F (FEDERAL, i.e. persons living overseas who are only eligible to vote in Federal Elections, not local municipal elections), M (Military, self-explanatory), P for Permanent (Disabled, persons in nursing homes, or disabled at home).
3. Also as previously noted, Ballot Type indicates whether the person voted at the Poll Site (R for Regular) or A for Absentee (in fact as you can see from the document, DJT voted on 11/2/2004 as an A for Absentee which means he probably was out of town and requested a ballot and voted by paper before election day.
4. Having looked at DJT’s voting history on the AVID System it actually does indicate in which registered party he voted for each election. In New York (perhaps elsewhere) we have voter registration books that are either Pink (Rep), Green (Dem) and other colors for other parties. you go to the table sign the book and take card. This was done to confirm the correct number of people voted on the machine as had signed the book.
So here is DJT’s Voting History with Party:
2014 GE REP
2013 GE REP
2013 Primary (Lhota vs Catsimatides) REP
2012 GE REP
2010 GE REP
2010 Primary (This was likely the contested GOP Primary for Governor) REP
2009 GE REP
2008 GE DEM
2006 GE DEM
2005 GE DEM
2004 GE REP
2001 GE DEM
2000 GE I (Independence Party)
1989 to 1998 All GE, All as REP
(GE = General Election). In his defense DJT voted in pretty much all eligible primaries. He has a good solid voting record since 1989, but he did vote as a Dem from 2005 (Mayoral elections in New York are every 4 years in the ODD/OFF years, so 2005, 2009, 2013 and next year) to 2008.
The original article states that Trump never voted in any Republican “Presidential” primaries, which is what I assumed we were talking about.
In 2004, when Trump was a registered Republican, he briefly campaigned for the Democratic Party presidential nomination.