Reply #142: It's a tough problem

[Bill Bored]

but the bottom line is simply the vote counts.

In this case, it should be possible to reconstruct the election with poll tapes and paper ballots, as necessary, without the use of GEMS.

If this were a paperless DRE jurisdiction, that's another story, but even then, there may be ways of viewing GEMS without copying the files, by simply sitting in front of the GEMS PC for a day or so and viewing the configuration.

I agree that this makes Diebold look like a bunch of crooks, but that's not unusual, is it?