Fortify Software Inc., the market leader in enterprise application security solutions for Business Software Assurance, today released a report on the current state of voting systems in America including a guide to choosing the most secure voting method for the November elections. Furthermore, the study points to the lasting inadequacies of today's electronic voting software, and calls upon elections officials and voting machine manufacturers to work alongside government officials in establishing better security metrics for the development of e-voting software.
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