Filename: state_g10_mailballot_by_g10_rgprec.dbf File URL: http://statewidedatabase.org/pub/data/G10/state/state_g10_mailballot_by_g10_rgprec.zip Dataset: 2010 General Election Precinct Data Description: This file contains statewide registration data for registered voters that voted by forced mail ballot. Unit of analysis: RG precincts are derived from the County Registrar of Voters' original registration precincts. Data source: Statewide Database - University of California, Berkeley Technical documentation: http://statewidedatabase.org/d10/Creating%20CA%20Official%20Redistricting%20Database.pdf Codebook: http://statewidedatabase.org/info/metadata/SOR_codebook.html Date last modified: Mon, 05 May 2015 Previous versions: none County records unavailable at time of file creation: none Errata 1: User notes regarding discrepancies in the reported totals in the vote method files (absentees, mailballot and poll voters). The reporting of the forced mail ballot vote and absentee mail ballot vote varies by county with some counties reporting forced mail ballot voters separately from the absentee ballot voters while other counties allocate and report their forced mail ballot voters with the precinct voters. Counties who reported all of the vote by mail vote in the absentees file and that have no reported mail ballot voters: 003 - Alpine 013 - Contra Costa 015 - Del Norte 017 - El Dorado 027 - Inyo 031 - Kings 035 - Lassen 037 - Los Angeles 041 - Marin 045 - Mendecino 047 - Merced 057 - Nevada 073 - San Diego 075 - San Francisco 091 - Sierra 093 - Siskiyou 099 - Stanislaus 115 - Yuba Counties who reported the majority of the vote by mail vote in the absentees file: 005 - Amador has a record of only 43 mail ballot voters. The remainder of the VBM voters are in the absentees file. 011 - Colusa has a record of only 1 mail ballot voter. The remainder of the VBM voters are in the absentees file. 081 - San Mateo has a record of only 1 mail ballot voter. The remainder of the VBM voters are in the absentees file.