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I can't know, but I've seen cases where it seems likely. Sometimes I've seen extended exchanges between 2 people, that no one else seems to be reading, where all the comments have a score of -1.
Personally, I don't think the voting system is working very well. It seems to be used to encourage conformity and punish negativity. I have a lot of points myself, but there's a strong negative correlation between the quality of my comments and posts, and the votes they receive. I'd like it if votes were no longer anonymous. I don't usually make a downvote without explaining why in a comment, myself.
I think votes tend to get more petty use than might be preferred, the negative effects of which could be partly ameliorated by displaying upvotes and downvotes separately, but even in the absence of that feature I think they do more good than harm.