Asian Americans emerged as an important voting bloc in 2020. Activists fear new voting restrictions could silence them

AAPI turnout surged last year, but activists say new laws in states such as Georgia target the mail-in voting favored by these voters.

Her Georgia Advancing Progress PAC sent 12,000 handwritten postcards in an array of languages -- Korean, Vietnamese, Urdu and more -- to reach voters in Georgia's fast-growing Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. Her team hosted a K-Pop dance rally near one early voting location in suburban Atlanta and served bubble tea near polling places in others. That effort and those of other activists paid off: AAPI turnout surged in Georgia with nearly 62,000 additional Asian American and Pacific Islanders casting ballots in 2020 general election than did so four years earlier, according to an analysis by Democratic data firm TargetSmart. That far exceeded President Joe Biden's 11,779-vote margin of victory in the state.