I just don't have sympathy for people who don't put forth the effort, then complain that they didn't participate. Whatever it was "designed" to do, it wouldn't have worked out that way if voters weren't lazy/apathetic. If you show up and get screwed, then you've got a right to complain. But if you don't...then blame yourself if yo don't like the result.
Most people probably did not even know about this until shortly before it happened. I am sure the republican party hacks, the same people who have been screwing over their own voters for decades, did not run bunches of ads letting people know about the changes they instituted in August. I disagree with the article. I think that making it purposely more difficult for rank and file republican voters to actually vote and register their opinion is inherently not democratic. I do not see where I am wrong.