Filename: state_p04_mailballot_by_p04_rgprec.dbf File URL: http://statewidedatabase.org/pub/data/P04/state/state_p04_mailballot_by_p04_rgprec.zip Dataset: 2004 Primary Election Precinct Data Description: This file contains statewide registration data for registered voters that voted by forced mail ballot. Unit of analysis: RG precincts are derived from the County Registrar of Voters' original registration precincts. 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: Mon, 19 May 2015 Previous versions: none County records unavailable at time of file creation: 027 - Inyo data were not reported 105 - Trinity data were not reported 115 - Yuba data were not reported Errata 1: User notes regarding discrepancies in the reported totals in the vote method files (absentees, mailballot and poll voters). The reporting of the forced mail ballot vote and absentee mail ballot vote varies by county with some counties reporting forced mail ballot voters separately from the absentee ballot voters while other counties allocate and report their forced mail ballot voters with the precinct voters. Counties who reported all of the vote by mail vote in the absentees file and that have no reported mail ballot voters: 001 - Alameda 003 - Alpine 005 - Amador 009 - Calaveras 011 - Colusa 015 - Del Norte 021 - Glenn 025 - Imperial 027 - Inyo 037 - Los Angeles 047 - Merced 049 - Modoc 053 - Monterey 055 - Napa 057 - Nevada 065 - Riverside 073 - San Diego 075 - San Francisco 079 - San Luis Obispo 081 - San Mateo 093 - Siskiyou 095 - Solano 099 - Stanislaus 103 - Tehama 105 - Trinity 113 - Yolo 115 - Yuba Counties who reported the majority of the vote by mail vote in the absentees file: 059 - Orange has a record of only 22 absentee voters. The mail ballot file has the remainder of the county's VBM voters. 063 - Plumas has a record of only 222 absentee voters. The mail ballot file has the remainder of the county's VBM voters.