When organizations issue public relations-style statements, they often raise more suspicions than they quell.
For instance, in the wake of an indictment handed down on Thursday against its company president and others, the Florida-based voting machine company Smartmatic issued a statement that oozed chutzpah and thus made one wonder about company officials’ capacity for truth-telling.
Indeed, the statement concluded with a remarkable boast of the company’s “integrity and transparency.”