Sure, but the answer is simple and doesn’t fit into the your narrative, so you won’t like it.

RCs are calculated based on the SP held. Powering down reduces that number greatly (which the account just did) mixed with over extending voting sucks it dry quickly.

I can see on steemd this information. A query could be run to see if there was possibly delegation the account normally held that was pulled as well, which could very easily drop RCs from a normal range to the number you see now.

As an example, and why I know this, is I was delegating my stake from my llfarms account to this one. I decided I would rather just have the llfarms account follow the votes of this account instead. So I pulled the delegation. Which made this account go from and 80% RC level to 10% I believe and I had to wait for it to charge up again. Same thing happened when I delegated out as well.. as it’s tied to the SP held in the account. Large changes in that will drop the RC significantly.

But what I see is an account that instead of using the 70 allocated 100% votes per week used 3 times that amount mixed with a power down that immediately drops the RC led to it being drained. It’s that simple and will charge back up.

No one can manipulate the code, I’m sorry.. it’s just not how it works.

This exact thing has happened to me by moving my whole stake around through delegations to my other account. It’s not a unique occurrence, it’s just mismanagement of RCs by not taking these things into effect.

Hope that helps.