Conclusion
By hiding his later rating for B, the voter could change his highest-rated favorite A from loser to winner. Thus, Majority Judgment fails the Later-no-harm criterion. Note, that Majority Judgment's failure to later-no-harm only depends on the handling of not-rated candidates. If all not-rated candidates would receive the best-possible rating, Majority Judgment would satisfy the later-no-harm criterion, but fail later-no-help.
If Majority Judgment would just ignore not rated candidates and compute the median just from the values that the voters expressed, a failure to later-no-harm could only help candidates for whom the voter has a higher honest opinion than the society has.
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