In states like Georgia, Arizona and Pennsylvania, the surge in AAPI early voting surpassed President-elect Joe Biden’s razor-thin margins of victory. Heavy investment in intergenerational organizing, local census operations and efforts to combat misinformation all contributed to the record turnout from the country’s fastest-growing electorate, experts said.
Organizers in Michigan said pre-pandemic Census operations provided them the infrastructure to register record numbers of low-propensity voters. While conducting the count, they were able to gauge the language needs of constituents, recruit bilingual phone-bankers and host community building events to foster political participation. Social service and cultural groups also switched gears to engage with canvassing work.
Ultimately, Cho said, it’s the rise in young and first-time voters, politicized by current events, that transformed this year’s election, in which early votes exceeded total 2016 turnout by 59 percent. “We have a powerful new electorate — this combination of Gen Z, Millennial, Gen X voters has helped a lot,” she said.
“The level of engagement and excitement was really high among the women, much higher than among men,” she told NBC Asian America, noting that Harris represented unprecedented opportunities for their children. “We feel that we can tell our daughters that it’s possible. We can relate to this experience.”
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