Filename:	state_g14_mailballot_by_g14_srprec.dbf, state_g14_mailballot_by_g14_srprec.csv

File URL:	http://statewidedatabase.org/pub/data/G14/state/state_g14_mailballot_by_g14_srprec.zip

Dataset:	2014 General 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:  Wed,21/Oct/2020

Previous versions:	Mon, 22 Jun 2015;	Fri, 01 May 2015
	Tue, 25 Sep 2018

County records unavailable at time of file creation:	none

Errata 1: Counties who reported all of their VBM voters in the absentees file.

003 - Alpine 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. 
025 - Imperial 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. 
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. 
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. 
091 - Sierra has no mail ballot voters reported. 
093 - Siskiyou 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. 

Errata 2:	

005 - Amador has a record of only 31 mail ballot voters. The remainder of the VBM voters are in the absentees file.
089 - Shasta has a record of only 1 mail ballot voter. The remainder of the VBM voters are in the absentees file.

Errata 3:

Tue, 25 Sep 2018 records in the file were updated for county c083 - Santa Barbara.

The current, Tue, 25 Sep 2018 statewide version of this file has 4 more records than the 2015 version. Total poll voters are the same in both files. There are 2 additional sr precinct records in the c057 -Nevada file and 2 additional sr precincts in the c083 - Santa Barbara file.

The 2018 statewide version of c083 - Santa Barbara file has 202 total records while the 2015 version has only 200 total records. The 2018 statewide version of the file has 2 sr precincts, sr precinct "30-3029" with totreg_r = 133 & sr precinct "40-4029" with totreg_r=135 that are not present in the 2015 version file. In the 2015 version of the file, there are sr precincts "30-3028" with totreg_r=184 and an sr precinct "40-4028" with totreg_r=325. In the 2018 version of the file, sr precinct "30-3028" has a totreg_r=51 and sr precinct "40-4028" has a totreg_r=190.