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itās not a mistake because itās not a real rule
This isnāt an example of how modern English is going to the dogs. Less has been used this way for well over a thousand yearsānearly as long as thereās been a written English language. But for more than 200 years almost every usage writer and English teacher has declared such use to be wrong. The received rule seems to have originated with the critic Robert Baker, who expressed it not as a law but as a matter of personal preference. Somewhere along the wayāitās not clear howāhis preference was generalized and elevated to an absolute, inviolable rule.
one less thing for you to worry about
canāt withhold a vote because policy wonāt change because if it did people would withhold their vote and then the policy would change