What is to prevent the same user having two accounts that "vote each other up"?.
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There are script that runs each day that can detect such scenario and reverse all the vote if a such thing is detected.
The detail of the those detection script are unknown (except for the developer) for obvious reason.
Also, if you think someone has been doing that (and the vote haven't been reversed), you can flag it for moderator attention.