Filename:	state_p18_absentees_by_p18_rrprec.dbf, state_p18_absentees_by_p18_rrprec.csv

File URL:	http://statewidedatabase.org/pub/data/P18/state/state_p18_absentees_by_p18_rrprec.zip

Dataset:	2018 Primary 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

Date last modified:07/16/19 
Previous versions:	none

County records unavailable at time of file creation:	
025 - Imperial County data are still being collected and processed.
047 - Merced County data are still being collected and processed.

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:
063 - Plumas County has no absentees voters reported.	

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

