

That’s illegal in most places. Votes are anonymous specifically on purpose. Numerous people have been threatened to vote certain ways in the past all over the world. If there is no record of you specifically voting a specific choice, you can’t be forced to vote a specific way. And you can’t be targeted after the fact for that vote.
So, what are the chances he was told to do this a while ago, but to wait a bit so they could deny involvement like this? That’s probably giving them too much credit.