In the 2004 Ohio election, the man in the middle was suspected to be SmarTech. Other companies involved were Gov Tech, Triad GSI (Khashoggi), and New Media Communications.
Haven't found much on what happened to Smartech, GovTech spun off into GSL Solutions.
Here is some background, these articles mostly came from Dems/Liberals researching election fraud post Bush.
The Swamp is murky
Excerpt from Dominion Voting Systems bun ALL PB
can be found here
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2004 Ohio election
In the 2004 Ohio election, Secretary of State Ken Blackwell contracted with GovTech to build the election night results website.[3] Ohio's 88 counties transmitted their results to a statewide tabulator at the SoS's office, which GovTech's election reporting application aggregated and displayed. GovTech's contract also included a mirror site to take over if the main site got overwhelmed, a job that fell to SmarTech, a partisan-Republican server hosting company. Throughout the night, county election results were rerouted to SmarTech and anomalous returns favoring Bush appeared. This raised fears that the Ohio vote was altered by SmarTech, which had a strategic position as a man-in-the-middle (MITM) between county and state tabulators. ensuing revelation that Bush Administration emails were also hosted on SmarTech servers, the King Lincoln attorneys took notice. Stephen Spoonamore joined the case in July 2008 as an expert IT witness, opining that SmarTech's role was likely malicious. Since Connell's company had built the Ohio election reporting system that incorporated SmarTech, the King Lincoln attorneys sought his testimony.
Connell was subpoenaed in late September of 2008. He attempted to quash the subpoena, claiming that the information sought was both "readily ascertainable through public records request" and "confidential, trade secrets, and/or proprietary information [...] not known to the public".[11] However, he was ultimately compelled to give a deposition on November 3, 2008, the day before the 2008 election.
In his testimony, Connell stressed multiple times that the election results website had no connection to vote tabulation systems. However, the Conyers report on the 2004 Ohio election specifically mentioned a county whose tabulator was linked to the SoS's office, and many of the tabulators were confirmed to be remotely-accessible or could have been rigged for remote access. Another strange statement was Connell's denial that he had worked on the White House email system, despite GovTech having worked on White House IT infrastructure that included "Internet communications projects". And in spite of the fact that GovTech had almost always used SmarTech for hosting, Connell was adamant that Blackwell, rather than himself, picked SmarTech to handle the mirror site.
His inconsistencies and apparent lies notwithstanding, Connell did reveal some important tidbits. He testified that, to the best of his knowledge, there was no "failover situation" on election night that would have necessitated SmarTech taking over the election returns. That meant that SmarTech's appearance on election night as a MITM most likely lacked any explanation beyond vote rigging. And Connell mentioned his collaboration with employees at Triad GSI on another election-related project for Blackwell dealing with voter registration.[12] Triad was formerly identified as the voting system contractor responsible for rigging tabulators and manipulating the recount in the 2004 Ohio election. Thus, Connell admitted to working closely with two companies that had suspicious roles in the election.
Connell, according to journalist Larisa Alexandrovna, had a desire to talk following the deposition. Since late 2007, his conscience had been eating at him over his involvement with unethical GOP activities. He made an effort to appear before Congress as an expert on election issues, but as the White House email scandal unfolded, Connell pulled back. In early summer of 2008, Connell once again became interested in setting up a meeting, but Rep. John Conyers and Dennis Kucinich's congressional staffs appeared to fumble it.[13] At the same time, Connell started receiving threats, as confirmed by Connell himself and King Lincoln attorney Cliff Arnebeck[14], and he clammed up again. But Alexandrovna managed to talk to Connell before the end of 2008, confirming the threats and that "Mike was getting ready to talk. He was frightened."[15]
Connell appeared to be facing an internal struggle over whether to come forward.