From the article.
"Putin's opponents say the March election in Russia is no real contest as the president wields unchallenged power and his main rival, Alexei Navalny, is serving more than 30 years in jail on charges that Navalny says were trumped up. They say the use of electronic voting creates scope for authorities to manipulate the vote in Putin's favour without detection.".

I cannot begin to imagine the sort of mental gymnastics the average Democrat must go through deciding whether or not they agree with those few sentences.