Filename:	state_g16_mailballot_by_g16_rgprec.dbf, state_g16_mailballot_by_g16_rgprec.csv

File URL:	http://statewidedatabase.org/pub/data/G16/state/state_g16_mailballot_by_g16_rgprec.zip

Dataset:	2016 General Election Precinct Data

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

County records unavailable at time of file creation:	none

Date last modified:  Wed,28/Jul/2021

Previous versions:	08/27/2018,	01/29/2018
  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," (VBM) voters are reported in the absentees file:
001 - Alameda has no mail ballot voters reported
003 - Alpine has no mail ballot voters reported
005 - Amador has no mail ballot voters reported
009 - Calaveras no mail ballot voters reported
011 - Colusa no mail ballot voters reported
015 - Del Norte has no mail ballot voters reported 
017 - El Dorado has no mail ballot voters reported 
021 - Glenn has no mail ballot voters reported 
023 - Humboldt no mail ballot voters reported
031 - Kings has no mail ballot voters reported 
037 - Los Angeles has no mail ballot voters reported 
041 - Marin has no mail ballot voters reported 
045 - Mendocino has no mail ballot voters reported 
047 - Merced has no mail ballot voters reported 
049 - Modoc has no mail ballot voters reported 
053 - Monterey has no mail ballot voters reported 
055 - Napa has no mail ballot voters reported 
057 - Nevada has no mail ballot voters reported
069 - San Benito no mail ballot voters reported
071 - San Bernardino has no mail ballot voters reported 
073 - San Diego has no mail ballot voters reported 
077 - San Joaquin no mail ballot voters reported
079 - San Luis Obispo has no mail ballot voters reported 
089 - Shasta has no mail ballot voters reported
091 - Sierra has no mail ballot voters reported 
093 - Siskiyou has no mail ballot voters reported 
095 - Solano has no mail ballot voters reported
101 - Sutter has no mail ballot voters reported
103 - Tehama has no mail ballot voters reported 
105 - Trinity has no mail ballot voters reported 
109 - Tuolumne has no mail ballot voters reported
111 - Ventura has no mail ballot voters reported
115 - Yuba has no mail ballot voters reported 

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

Errata 3. There are discrepancies in totals in the RG, RR and SR precinct files for the following counties:	none



