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                                                                      Exhibit 24




                              POWER OF ATTORNEY
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        KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That the undersigned directors of
Diebold, Incorporated, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of
the State of Ohio, do for themselves and not for another, constitute and
appoint Warren W. Dettinger, Charee Francis-Vogelsang or Gerald F. Morris, or
any one of them, a true and lawful attorney-in-fact in their names, place and
stead, to sign their names to the report on Form 10-K for the year ended
December 31, 1995, or to any and all amendments to such reports, and to cause
the same to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission; it being
intended to give and grant unto said attorney-in-fact and each of them full
power and authority to do and perform any act and thing necessary and proper to
be done in the premises as fully and to all intents and purposes as the
undersigned by themselves could do if personally present.  The undersigned
directors ratify and confirm all that said attorneys-in-fact or either of them
shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

        IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have hereunto set their hands as of
the date set opposite their signature.



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Signed in the presence of:                 Signature                          Date
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/s/ Charee Francis-Vogelsang               /s/ Louis V. Bockius               March 7, 1996
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                                           Louis V. Bockius, Director

/s/ Charee Francis-Vogelsang               /s/ Donald R. Gant                 March 7, 1996
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                                           Donald R. Gant, Director       

/s/ Charee Francis-Vogelsang               /s/ Philip B. Lassiter             March 7, 1996
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                                           Philip B. Lassiter, Director   

/s/ Charee Francis-Vogelsang               /s/ John N. Lauer                  March 7, 1996
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                                           John N. Lauer, Director        

/s/ Charee Francis-Vogelsang               /s/ William F. Massy               March 7, 1996
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                                           William F. Massy, Director