Yes.
In the work that Fenwick McKelvey and I have been doing on political bots, we identified these amplifiers and these dampeners as the two types of bots that are most frequently used to impact the spread of political information in a way that could be negative.
One of those concerns is voter suppression, because if a “get out the vote” message is targeting a particularly under-represented group within the Canadian voting sphere—we know that new Canadians have lower rates of voting than people who have been here their entire lives—and if there's an amplification of a message that's trying to dissuade them from voting, or a dampening of the message that is trying to encourage them to vote, that could unfairly push them away from participating in their electoral system.
We could also imagine more covert approaches that are similar to the robocall scandal, where we had somebody who created an automated telephone message that directed people to the wrong polling place. You can imagine an automated version of that being deployed on Twitter or on WhatsApp, using automated scripts, which is essentially what we mean when we're saying political bots at this point.