Misdemeanor vote indecision

[DEMOREP1 at aol.com]

Mr. Ossipoff wrote in part --

But changing how you intend to vote, surely that's only a misdeme[a]nor.

X, it later turns out, was going to lose. But then I decided to rank
X last instead of first, and he won. No one has tampered with ballots.
No one has peeked at the ballot-box. The rankings were reported after
the election.
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D- How will Mr. Ossipoff detect that some choice *was going to lose* unless 
such choice actually loses (especially in a mass public election-- such as 
the circa 105 million votes for U.S. President in 2000) ???

How will Mr. Ossipoff detect that ONLY *his* vote changed the results ???  By 
more election law felonies ???

Are ANY of the other voters also playing the reverse order insincere/ 
strategy voting game (or are they just being naive and voting sincerely -- 
such that ONLY Mr. Ossipoff among ALL the voters is playing the insincere/ 
strategy voting game) ???

Is choice X elected by a majority of the voters (whether sincere or 
insincere) ???