Someone in the current government did that.

I wouldn’t assume that is the case, because Lemmy is still very new and very small, too small to bother with, at least for now. Though the fediverse is on their radar, so with enough popularity, they eventually will bother with Lemmy.

A few of the downvotes were from accounts that are over a year old, yet never post or comment. I suspect they’re usually alt accounts people use so they can downvote more than once. As far as I’m concerned they’re spam accounts that should be banned.