any way that it is found. They obviously don't like their chances if it is left up to the voters casting their ballots by the rules, without rigging the vote. Purging voter roles? Check. Reducing voting locations and days to vote? Check. Turn a blind eye to Russian involvement in US elections? Check.

In the absence of any other plausible reason for this, the article has it about right in this passage:
"The Mueller report shows in detail that Trump and almost everybody working for him welcomed Russian help, legal or otherwise. The reason the government isn’t doing more to protect our democracy from the next attack is that the people who cooperated with the last attack don’t want to."