Reports say Ambassador Galbraith has sided with the Canadian chairman of the Electoral Complaints Commission, Grant Kippen, to take a hard line and toss out all tainted ballots.
Shortlists for job interviews, election ballot papers, lists of conference speakers and attendees: all tend to be drawn up alphabetically, and their recipients lose interest as they plough through them.
This is why Mr Brown and his wife, Anne Gust Brown, often described as his consigliere, have been working desperately to keep all rival measures off the ballot.
The Electoral Commission said Mr. Maduro had won 5.8 million votes; 1.8 million Venezuelans cast their ballots for his opposition challenger Henri Falcon.
For absentee ballots, when people don't vote in person, voters will be required to show a form of identification like a driver's license or state ID number when they request or turn in an absentee ballot.
Caucuses and primaries are state held events that help narrow down a field of candidates so that each major party has only one name that appears on the presidential ballot.