Filename:	state_s08_mailballot_by_s08_rgprec.dbf

File URL:	http://statewidedatabase.org/pub/data/S08/state/state_s08_mailballot_by_s08_rgprec.zip

Dataset:	2008 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:
003 - Alpine
015 - Del Norte
027 - Inyo
037 - Los Angeles
041 - Marin
047 - Merced
057 - Nevada
071 - San Bernardino
073 - San Diego
075 - San Francisco
079 - San Luis Obispo
081 - San Mateo
087 - Santa Cruz
089 - Shasta
091 - Sierra
093 - Siskiyou
095 - Solano
111 - Ventura
115 - Yuba

Counties who reported the majority of the vote by mail vote in the absentees file:	
033 - Lake has a record of only 356 absentee voters. The mail ballot file has the remainder of the county's VBM voters.