Reply #290: "written in Access"?

[Fredda Weinberg]

I don't have to sound "techie"; it's what I do for my day job.

The security in GEMS is essentially physical; it's meant to run on a dedicated, standalone PC. Licensing a more powerful DBMS would be a waste of money.

It may not be the system you'd design - or I would - but I've seen enough of GEMS to conclude that it's an otherwise reasonable product and it meets the criteria I saw on the FEC website.

I've posted elsewhere where the first open source election system kept its audit files in plain text. I suppose you'd laugh at that too ...

I'm sorry such a derisive atmosphere has been created by this PR crew. It's distorted the original noble intention of cooperative research into a pissing match.

All programmers know there's no security in Access? Damning enough? Scott, on this issue, you've bought a red herring.