在Google搜尋「pennsylvania mail in ballot data」,可以找到賓夕凡尼亞州政府的開放數據網站記錄了今年初選——而非總統選舉——的郵寄選票申請數據,當中顯示共有1,823,148宗申請,跟朱利亞尼提到的數字完全相同。而利用該網站的數據可視化工具,可發現當中有約146萬張選票寄回,同樣跟朱利亞尼提到的數字吻合。[9]
In an English High Court case in 1977, the late Lord Denning summed up the gist of the principle of the rule of law when he said:
To every subject in this land, no matter how powerful, I would use Thomas Fuller’s words over 300 years ago: ‘Be you never so high, the law is above you.’