Chicago Reader (March 14) -- A handful of Twitter bots and propaganda accounts appear to be trying to influence Illinois's gubernatorial election on behalf of Republican candidate Jeanne Ives. Tweets and retweets mentioning the name of Governor Rauner's right-wing conservative opponent were sent out more than 5,000 times in a single week in March, a vast majority of those supporting the Ives campaign. That's according to a recent analysis by Ajay Jain, a statistics, computer science, and political science student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.