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“Getting Out the Asian American Vote” Report: in October 2009, the Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC) released a new report titled, “Getting Out the Asian American Vote: Achieving Double Digit Increases in Turnout During the 2006 and 2008 Elections.” The report is based on the work that APALC conducted in 2006 and 2008 [...]
Perfecting the Art of VAN: a Tutorial in Using the Voter Activation Network
Yongho Kim / Korean Resource Center
This is the second in a series of two articles introducing a couple of basic ways of narrowing and refining voter lists (also known as voter targeting) using the California Voter Connect/Voter Activation Network(VAN) system , which can help improve the effectiveness of your organization’s Get Out The Vote (GOTV) [...]
Winning Institutional Support for Immigration Reform: Youth and Voter Engagement in Riverside
The Stage
The Latino Riverside County population in California, which consists of 43 % of the population, only accounts for about 20% of the registered voters and represents 15% of voter turnout. These low levels of civic participation reflect the inequity that still exists within Riverside and similar counties across the country. Mr. Francisco Solá, a [...]
Victory over Proposed Budget Cuts: Engaging Chinese American Voters and Grassroots Leaders in San Francisco
The Stage
The Chinese population comprises almost 25% of the entire population of the city of San Francisco with Asians at almost 40% of the city’s population. There are prominent Chinese American elected officials, but that does not mean that there has been sufficient changes in the daily lives of low-income Chinese families and other low-income [...]
Lifting Up the Issue of Immigrant Rights in Anti-immigrant Communities: Voter Engagement in San Diego
The Stage
More than one in five San Diegans was born outside the country with 53% of the foreign born coming from Latin America, 33% come from Asia, and 10% come from Europe. San Diego is a critical area in the fight for comprehensive immigration reform and social justice change.
There are thousands of families who lives [...]
