why the gems electronic voting system is worse than useless.:

"Let's re-cap, shall we?
· MS-Access allows unlimited tampering with the elections data.
· There's also an easy way to defeat the GEMS Admin password.
· The audit trail has been left wide open to the point of uselessness. Even if it wasn't, alterations that are done in Access never make it to the GEMS audit log anyways - the log items are CREATED by GEMS, not by Access.
· Therefore, the only reason you'd need to tamper with the GEMS password by copying the password from a new datafile is if you wanted to check your dirty deeds in the GEMS program. Somebody who knows GEMS inside and out will never have to do that - they only need alter the data in MS-Access.

gems stores it's data in access format. microsoft bloody access.