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.
But in a country where voting is compulsory, the 20 million or so votes that Marina Silva secured in the first round are being actively courted by the two remaining candidates.
He is ready to see it all the way through, to speak to every man and every woman, of every background, in every part of this great country. To earn your trust and to earn your vote.
The idea of actual voters participating in the primary process, it`s relatively recent as in New Hampshire didn`t put candidate names on primary ballots until 1948, and those results weren`t binding until 1952.