registeredVoters: A sample of the voter registration list for Wake County,...
In dtkaplan/DCF: Distributing materials for the DCF course

Usage Format Details Source Examples

1	data(RegisteredVoters)

A data frame with 10000 rows.

gender: M or F
party: Party affiliation: DEM=Democratic, LIB=Libertarian,REP=Republican,UNA=Unaffiliated
Age: age in years
race: race: A=Asian, B=black or African American, I=American Indian or Alaska Native, M=More than one race, O=Other, U=Undesignated,W=White
voter_reg_num: Unique serial number for each voter
last_name: Voter's last name
first_name: Voter's first name
midl_name: Voter's middle name
name_sufx: Suffix, if any, on the voter's name

For additional fields, see the original documentation at http://msweb03.co.wake.nc.us/bordelec/Waves/boedatadescription.pdf.

The data file is publicly available from the Wake County (NC) Board of Elections. http://msweb03.co.wake.nc.us/bordelec/Waves/WavesDownload.asp. It's in a Windows self-extracting format. Prof. Shilad Sen reformatted the data for the DCF package.

The full data set, containing 583,092 records, is available at http://www.mosaic-web.org/go/Repository/DannyKaplan/WakeCountyBOE.Rdata. You can access it by downloading the file, then loading it into your R session. The data frame is WakeCountyBOE.