Filename:	state_p18_mailballot_by_p18_srprec.dbf, state_p18_mailballot_by_p18_srprec.csv

File URL:	http://statewidedatabase.org/pub/data/P18/state/state_p18_mailballot_by_p18_srprec.zip

Dataset:	2018 Primary Election Precinct Data

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

Unit of analysis:  SR precincts are derived from consolidated 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," (VBM) voters are reported in the absentees file:
001 - Alameda has no mail-ballot voters reported
003 - Alpine has no mail-ballot voters reported
009 - Calaveras has no mail-ballot voters reported
011 - Colusa has 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 has no mail-ballot voters reported
027 - Inyo has no mail ballot voters reported
031 - Kings has no mail-ballot voters reported 
035 - Lassen 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 
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
065 - Riverside has no mail-ballot voters reported
071 - San Bernardino has no mail-ballot voters reported 
073 - San Diego has no mail-ballot voters reported 
079 - San Luis Obispo has no mail-ballot voters reported 
081 - San Mateo 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
099 - Stanislaus 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
113 - Yolo 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

