Filename: state_p10_absentees_by_p10_rrprec.zip, state_p10_absentees_by_p10_rrprec.dbf

File URL: http://swdb.berkeley.edu/pub/data/P10/state/state_p10_absentees_by_p10_rrprec.zip

Dataset: 2010 Primary Election Precinct Data

Description:  This file contains statewide registration data for registered voters that voted by mail ballot. RR precincts are derived from Registration Precincts (geographic unit constructed for statistical merging purposes by SWDB)
Please refer to technical documentation for further information, http://swdb.berkeley.edu/d10/Creating%20CA%20Official%20Redistricting%20Database.pdf

Variable codebook,
http://swdb.berkeley.edu/info/metadata/SOR_codebook.html 

User Notes: Discrepancies in the vote by mail, poll voter and absentee voter totals

Prior to the 2012 Primary election, the reporting of the forced Vote by Mail ballot vote and absentee mail ballot vote varied by county with some counties reporting forced Vote by Mail ballot voters separately from the Absentee ballot voters.

In cases where the county reported the forced VBM separately from the absentee ballot vote the Statewide Database allocated the forced VBM vote to the poll voters file rather than the absentee voters file.

In the 2010 Primary election, forced VBM voters in the below listed counties were allocated to the poll voters file. This resulted in absentee voter totals in the Statewide Database files for these counties that do not match the breakout of the vote by mail vote that is posted on the Secretary of State's website for the same election.

06009 - Calaveras 
06023 - Humboldt 
06069 - San Benito
06043 - Mariposa

Date last modified: 11/01/2012, Previous Versions Modified 10/29/2012, 3/4/2011

County records not available or unavailable at time of file creation:

06049 - Modoc
