Having just read your excerpt and not the whole article, this sounds alarmingly like exactly the sort of thing the right will seize on and cry foul as the real source of the rigging of the election against Trump. It's exactly the opposite of that, of course, but that won't matter to the right. I'm afraid this is about to become the bogeyman they've been searching for.
Even some people refuse to see:
https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2594844/saving-election