You will affect the reputation of the "target" whose post you downvoted if your reputation is higher than them though. That is why I am not in favor of forced downvoting, unless there is a way to downvote a post without reducing the reputation of the post owner.
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By the time anything like this might be implemented, I think it's safe to assume that the existing reputation system will have likely been replaced by something that works quite differently.