Say the method is SODA.
Say your favorite, F, is going to win the initial, ballots-only, Approval
count, under sincere voting.
The runner-up, G, has some (from your viewpoint) not-as-good-as-G candidates at
the top of hir ranking for delegated approvals.
(There's nothing unusual or unlikely about that. A big-votegetting compromise
can have some preferences that
many don't like as much)
Because F wins, G doesn't win. Therefore, s/he gives hir delegated approvals to
some of hir higher-ranked candidates.
One of them wins as a result.
But if you had voted for G, but but not for F, then G would have won, instead
of the worse candidates in hir ranking.
If you'd buried your favorite, you would have gotten a better outcome, not
gettable by you in any other way.
Mike Ossipoff
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