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Fortify Software says it will offer a free copy of its source code analysis software to states in order to check the integrity of their e-voting machines. According to the press release: “We’re donating our products to states so they can find places where their machines’ software is vulnerable to attack,” said John M. Jack, Fortify’s CEO. “These coding mistakes open the door for a malicious voter or polling location volunteer to change your vote or even cast multiple votes; corrupting an election could be as easy as inserting a carefully programmed cartridge or a bogus ballot into the machine.” “Our assessment found security vulnerabilities in the software of these systems,” said Matt Bishop, a professor of computer science at…