It is important to stress

Install Electron Cash (http://www.electroncash.org/) on a machine that does not have your Electrum wallets.

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.