-----Original Message-----
From: 
    Ken Clark <ken@dieboldes.com>
To: Bugs <bugtrack@dieboldes.com>
Date: 
    Tuesday, February 15, 2000 1:20 PM
Subject: RE: 1-14-8 gems 
    "An election with the same identifier is already open" 
    
 
    
        
        Why does the system give the 
        message" An election with the same identifier is already open 
        ."when in fact there is no election open and Gems is not running on 
        the Task Manager?   
 
     
    Under "Applications" or under 
    "Processes"?  applications 
    
    
        Could it be that Gems has not shut 
        down all the way? 
     
    Yes.  GEMS will be in the task manager 
    though.  The error message actually means something is preventing the 
    poster log file from being opened 
    exclusively.
    
        This has happened several times and all 
        I can do is say ok and start gems again 
     
    Can you 
    reproduce it?  yes  on my 
    laptop and Santa Barbara can too- they just 
    did 
    they were running 
    central count - didn't stop - were printing reports (summary by precinct) 
    got thrown out of gems completely - back to desktop - went to open gems 
    again and got the message above -  said ok- tried again and got 
    in  
     
    Ken