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Testers claim success in Diebold hack

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Relief has yet to arrive for beleaguered e-voting company Diebold. The company named a new CEO on Monday but the bad news keeps coming.

Numerous blogs dedicated to monitoring the security of online voting, reported that Diebold's e-voting machines were hacked in a demonstration in Leon County, Fla., on Tuesday.

A day before, Diebold announced that CEO Wally O'Dell resigned. Based in the North Canton, Ohio, Diebold's machines are under scrutiny in Florida, North Carolina and California.

During the simulated election in Leon, election officials tampered with the memory card of one of Diebold's Optical Scan machines. The security system used to protect against memory-card attacks failed to catch the falsified results, according to reports.