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

Date last modified:	02/05/2019

Previous versions:	01/21/2012, 01/31/2008

County records unavailable at time of file creation:	
015 - Del Norte county RR and SR precinct data are unavailable for this election.

Data user notes:

Note 1.	Discrepancies in the reported totals in the Statewide Database vote method files: absentees, mailballot and poll voters.

The reporting of the forced vote-by-mail ballots and vote-by-mail ballots cast by choice by absentee voters varies by county and election with some counties reporting forced vote-by-mail ballots
separately from the vote-by-mail ballots cast by absentee voters. Other counties report all of their vote-by-mail ballots as one without distinguishing between forced and 
absentee vote-by-mail ballots; 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.

Errata 1. Counties where all of the 2005 Special Election "vote-by-mail" vote is reported in the mailballot file:	none

Errata 2. Counties where the majority of the 2005 Special Election "vote-by-mail" vote is reported in the mailballot file :	none
