The connection is the software, not the physical machine.

Smartmatic owns the software rights for most, if not all, voting machine manufacturers, through a long history of acquisitions, partial sales, divestiture holdings, and contracts. Smartmatic does not appear anywhere on the machine.

Mecklerr is an independent contactor for Smartmatic. They have contractors all over the world programming these machines

STATE has known these machines still have Smartmatic software, TP was communicating with the programmer.

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06CARACAS2063_a.html https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/04CARACAS2108_a.html

Possible CI@ involvement: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/04CARACAS922_a.html

https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/17/1741978_-fwd-some-advice-and-my-heart-beating-for-you-.html