Wyndotte County, KS - lost database

Kim at Wyndotte County, KS has been working on her General Election, copied from her Primary Election this past Tuesday. I am not positive what she has done, but I believe that she has deleted the database through Gems, instead of opening the database. I had her do a search on her drives for the name of the election, and all we can find is the dbf file not the mdb file. If you do delete a database through Gems, does it save it anywhere else, like the recycle bin, or not??? She needs an answer right away, since they want a ballot out by the end of today.