RegisteredVoters: A sample of the voter registration list for Wake County,...
In dtkaplan/DataComputing: Functions and Data for the Data Computing book

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These are data from the Wake County Board of Elections. As so often happens, the web sites with the documentation and data are no longer current.

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
mail_city: Component of voter's mailing address
mail_state_cd: Component of voter's mailing address
mail_street: Component of voter's mailing address
mail_zip_code: Component of voter's mailing address
registr_dt: Component of voter's mailing address
res_city: Component of voter's mailing address
res_state_cd: Component of voter's mailing address
res_unit_num: Component of voter's mailing address
res_zip_code: Component of voter's mailing address
voter_status: Status of the voter

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 DataComputing 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.