Powerful Chicago Alderman Accuses International Conspiracy Against Chicago

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

The City Council's most powerful alderman on Friday accused the Venezuelan-owned company at the center of the ballot-counting debacle March 21 of being part of an "international conspiracy to subvert the electoral process" in the United States.

Smartmatic International Group, parent company of Sequoia Voting Systems, is more than 90 percent owned by the Mugicas, a family of Venezuelan nationals. Family patriarch Antonio Mugica is Smartmatic's CEO.

On Friday, Finance Committee Chairman Edward M. Burke (14th) questioned Sequoia President Jack Blaine, Perry Mason-style, about the company's Venezuelan ownership.

We don't know about the merits of the case but if there's one man who knows about "conspiracy" it's Ed Burke.Alderman Burke sets the tax code in Chicago,slates all the judges in Cook County,runs a law firm with big corporate clients who try cases in front of Burke slated judges and if that's not enough his wife just got appointed to be on the Illinois Supreme Court:so you still get a Burke judge on appeal.No word yet on Ed Burke possibly getting into the voting machine business.