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L AS VEGAS - The nonpartisan coalition One Nevada, in partnership with APALA-NV and APIAVote, continues its GOTV campaign by encouraging early voting, phone banking infrequent registered AAPI voters daily, and canvassing highly concentrated AAPI neighborhoods to increase the AAPI vote. With Nevada’s 5 electoral votes in the air, a once emerging AAPI community, comprising about 102,000 eligible voters, is now Nevada’s key electorate.
Increasing community power through voting
“Now is the time to exercise our power as a community. One Nevada has been working in Clark County since 2000, and unlike campaigns, we are here for the long haul, helping to build and empower communities to have strong involvement and infrastructure for the future,” said APIAVote board member Gloria Caoile.
“This is our third presidential cycle, and we are building off a momentum that has outlived campaigns, and we hope to work with the community and political parties so that AAPIs in Nevada are at the voting booths,” said Rozita V. Lee, APALA-NV Chapter president. “Efforts here in Nevada have really united AAPIs. It makes me really proud to be part of such grassroots efforts,” said Lee.
Voter registration efforts
One Nevada kicked off this election campaign with new voter registration efforts. Starting from a list of tens of thousands of AAPI households, One Nevada plowed through hundreds of bad numbers, and made contact with 22,000 AAPI households. In addition, One Nevada was able to update the very outdated list, for future election work.
“Since the registration deadline has passed, we have moved on to early voting and targeting infrequent voters. But we are really energized by our progress in registering new AAPI voters,” said Lee. Over the registration period, we made 22,000 phone calls, and registered close to 1,000 new AAPI voters, which is quite a milestone,” said Lee.
Reaching infrequent voters & encouraging early voting
Now the focus is on getting infrequent voters to vote and to get voters to vote early as well.
“With Nevada being such a 24-hour town, and not a typical 9-5 kind of work culture, we want to encourage our AAPIs to vote early if they can,” said Lee.
“One Nevada started phone banking registered voters and started canvassing concentrated AAPI neighborhoods to increase voter turnout during early voting and on November 4. Phone bank efforts started Thursday, October 16 and will target infrequent registered AAPI voters. Canvassing efforts of concentrated AAPI neighborhoods started Monday, October 20 and will continue daily until November 4,” said Katrina A. Koh, One Nevada’s field director. “We will continue to encourage and inform voters and work to ensure that AAPIs get to the polls.”
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