It is important to stress
on a machine that does not have your Electrum wallets.Install Electron Cash (http://www.electroncash.org/)
If you do have an electrum wallet, it will make a copy of the wallet and put it into the Electrum Cash directory.
https://github.com/fyookball/electrum/commit/0fc02cceee9d3465849dcecb2c1126de7cf65550
Especially considering the fact that the binaries are anonymous/aren't being signed by a person using their real name, they could do something malicious and not be held responsible, etc.