A simple analogy that treated the concept of infinite as finite, so it's a false analogy as it doesn't describe the situation or elucidate what is happening better than simply explaining the situation technically.

You have an endless machine that prints vouchers for votes. If you fold the voucher in half it basically counts as a downvote.. etc etc etc. No theft, no stealing, no essentializing.

Nobody "took your vote back" nobody stole your voice and indeed his abuse affects everyone, those money come from the communal pot that runeth over, which he's wheelbarrowed out because he "deserves" obscene amounts of wealth. We are not on the same page, we are not in the same building.