Filename: state_s05_mailballot_by_s05_rgprec.dbf File URL: http://statewidedatabase.org/pub/data/S05/state/state_s05_mailballot_by_s05_rgprec.zip Dataset: 2005 Special 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, 18 May 2015 Previous versions: none County records unavailable at time of file creation: none 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 017 - El Dorado 021 - Glenn 023 - Humboldt 025 - Imperial 027 - Inyo 031 - Kings 035 - Lassen 037 - Los Angeles 041 - Marin 045 - Mendocino 047 - Merced 049 - Modoc 051 - Mono 053 - Monterey 055 - Napa 057 - Nevada 069 - San Benito 071 - San Bernardino 073 - San Diego 075 - San Francisco 079 - San Luis Obispo 081 - San Mateo 083 - Santa Barbara 089 - Shasta 091 - Sierra 093 - Siskiyou 095 - Solano 099 - Stanislaus 103 - Tehama 109 - Tuolumne 113 - Yolo Counties who reported the majority of the vote by mail vote in the absentees file: 033 - Lake has a record of only 355 absentee voters. The mail ballot file has the remainder of the county's VBM voters. 063 - Plumas has a record of only 390 absentee voters. The mail ballot file has the remainder of the county's VBM voters.