This year’s elections were remarkably safe and fair, thanks to volunteers and poll workers from across the political spectrum. But, according to an opinion article in the Los Angeles Times, our process of voting, and our democracy as a whole, is under serious threat.

[Some people], suspicious of our elections, are trying to turn democracy in on itself. They are working to keep voters away from the polls and to root out fraud—even though every legitimate study shows voter fraud to be vanishingly rare.

This growing antidemocratic brand of activism is a dark mirror image of the grassroots work that drives our democracy. Many of the participants seem motivated by a real sense of civic duty. That’s because leaders of the election denial movement cynically use disinformation to twist Americans’ democratic impulses toward antidemocratic ends, and to lay the groundwork to challenge election results baselessly.

Fortunately for democracy, there are powerful coalitions fighting to keep our democracy functioning. Record voter turnout is a sign that people care about our democratic processes. Those of us who want to preserve and expand the right and ability to vote for all must redouble our efforts to encourage participation and demand protections for future elections.