Filename:	state_g16_absentees_by_g16_rrprec.dbf, state_g16_absentees_by_g16_rrprec.dbf

File URL:	http://statewidedatabase.org/pub/data/G16/state/state_g16_absentees_by_g16_rrprec.zip

Dataset:	2016 General Election Precinct Data

Description:	This file contains statewide registration data for registered voters that voted by absentee ballot.  

Unit of analysis:  RR precincts are derived from consolidated registration precincts and are a geographic unit constructed for statistical merging purposes by the Statewide Database. 

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

County records unavailable at time of file creation:	none

Date last modified:  Wed,28/Jul/2021

Previous versions:	08/23/2018,	01/25/2018
  Wed,21/Oct/2020
  Tue,20/Oct/2020
  Fri,18/Oct/2019
  Fri,18/Oct/2019
	02/19/2019

Data user notes:

Note 1. There are discrepancies in the reported totals in the Statewide Database vote method files for the absentee, mail-ballot and poll voters.

The reporting of the forced vote-by-mail ballot voters and vote-by-mail ballots cast by choice by absentee voters varies by county and election. 

Some counties are able to report the forced vote-by-mail ballots separately from the vote-by-mail ballots cast by absentee voters. 

Other counties are not able to do this and report all of their vote-by-mail ballots as one without distinguishing between forced and 
absentee vote-by-mail voters; or they report their forced vote-by-mail voters as precinct voters resulting in these voters being reported in the Statewide Database's poll voters file instead of the absentees or mail-ballot files.

Errata 1. Counties where all of the 2018 Primary Election "vote-by-mail" voters are reported in the mailballot file:	none
	
Errata 2. Counties where the majority of the 2018 Primary Election "vote-by-mail" voters are reported in the mail-ballot file:	none	

Errata 3. There are discrepancies in totals in the RG, RR and SR precinct files for the following counties:
009 - Calaveras RG file has 3 more absentee voters than the RR and SR files
023 - Humboldt RG file has 1 more absentee  voter than the RR and SR files
033 - Lake RG file has 1 more absentee voter than the RR and SR files
037 - Los Angeles RG file has 16 more absentee voters than the RR and SR files
041 - Marin RG file has 1 more absentee voter than the RR and SR files
047 - Merced RG file has 1 more absentee voter than the RR and SR files
057 - Nevada RG file has 1 more absentee voter than the RR and SR files
065 - Riverside RG file has 2 more absentee voters than the RR and SR files
067 - Sacramento RG file has 1 more absentee voter than the RR and SR files
071 - San Bernardino RG file has 1 more absentee voter than the RR and SR files
073 - San Diego RG file has 1 more absentee voter than the RR and SR files
077 - San Joaquin RG file has 1 more absentee voter than the RR and SR files
079 - San Luis Obispo RG file has 1 more absentee voter than the RR and SR files
081 - San Mateo RG file has 1 more absentee voter than the RR and SR files
085 - Santa Clara RG file has 4 more absentee voters than the RR and SR files
087 - Santa Cruz RG file has 3 more absentee voters than the RR and SR files
095 - Solano RG file has 1 more absentee voter than the RR and SR files


