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 County records unavailable at time of file creation: none Date last modified: Mon,02/Aug/2021 Previous versions: 08/23/2018, 01/25/2018 Wed,28/Jul/2021 Wed,21/Oct/2020 Tue,20/Oct/2020 Fri,18/Oct/2019 Fri,18/Oct/2019 02/19/2019 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: none Errata 2. Counties where the majority of the 2018 Primary Election "vote-by-mail" voters are reported in the mail-ballot file: none Errata 3. There are discrepancies in totals in the RG, RR and SR precinct files for the following counties: 009 - Calaveras RG file has 3 more absentee voters than the RR and SR files 023 - Humboldt RG file has 1 more absentee voter than the RR and SR files 033 - Lake RG file has 1 more absentee voter than the RR and SR files 037 - Los Angeles RG file has 16 more absentee voters than the RR and SR files 041 - Marin RG file has 1 more absentee voter than the RR and SR files 047 - Merced RG file has 1 more absentee voter than the RR and SR files 057 - Nevada RG file has 1 more absentee voter than the RR and SR files 065 - Riverside RG file has 2 more absentee voters than the RR and SR files 067 - Sacramento RG file has 1 more absentee voter than the RR and SR files 071 - San Bernardino RG file has 1 more absentee voter than the RR and SR files 073 - San Diego RG file has 1 more absentee voter than the RR and SR files 077 - San Joaquin RG file has 1 more absentee voter than the RR and SR files 079 - San Luis Obispo RG file has 1 more absentee voter than the RR and SR files 081 - San Mateo RG file has 1 more absentee voter than the RR and SR files 085 - Santa Clara RG file has 4 more absentee voters than the RR and SR files 087 - Santa Cruz RG file has 3 more absentee voters than the RR and SR files 095 - Solano RG file has 1 more absentee voter than the RR and SR files