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I've been on this site for several years, and I still don't know who is in charge at the deepest level (technical administration, let's say), so I don't even know who you can appeal to for help, whether IP addresses for downvotes etc are logged, and so on.
Trike Apps are the main maintainers/developers, but I believe Eliezer is involved still (and the code is open source, and they do accept contributions).
I've looked at some relevant sections of the source code, but I'm unsure if I should say anything publicly.
Seems like the accounts that made each downvote would have to be stored somewhere, since anyone can go back and change their votes at any time. So it should be easy enough to mine the database for curious patterns if you knew what you were looking for.
Paul Graham at Hacker News has hinted that he has all sorts of hidden machinery in placing looking for odd voting activity. Given how big and occasionally ugly it has gotten, Reddit probably also has all sorts of inside workings going on, though I don't know how open they are about them.