CAUSE’S first-ever 2024 Together We Vote Fest brought together diverse Asian Pacific Islander (API) communities through a multi-day celebration during the 10 days of early voting leading up to Election Day. This historic fest blended vibrant cultural festivities with meaningful civic engagement, demonstrating the powerful ways communities can unite to learn, connect, and take action.

Produced and organized by CAUSE in collaboration with 20 organizations and leaders, the festival directly engaged with over 5,000 people and reached over 400 million through digital outreach via press media and various digital platforms. Across historic API neighborhoods in Los Angeles County, attendees enjoyed music, food, family-friendly activities, and essential voter resources. This fest energized neighborhoods across Los Angeles County and highlighted the power of community, culture, and civic action.

These CAUSE-led mobile vote center activations resulted in historic in-person voter turnout at Little Tokyo’s Haunted Little Tokyo Block Party, North Hollywood’s Wat Thai Los Angeles Temple, and Koreatown’s Korean American Federation of Los Angeles.

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during the 10 days of early voting leading up to election day

culturally-informed events to reach diverse api communities throughout los angeles county

including community organizations and leaders

through in-person activations

through press, digital media campaigns, and physical mailers

HISTORIC FIRSTs

First-Ever Vote Center at the Haunted Little Tokyo Block Party

The Haunted Little Tokyo Block Party, an annual Halloween event produced by CAUSE and Little Tokyo organizations and small businesses, draws over 4,000 attendees.

As the signature kick-off to Together We Vote Fest, Haunted Little Tokyo 2024 introduced the first-ever Mobile Vote Center in partnership with Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Office. Thanks to positive feedback, the Vote Center stayed open until 10pm, offering later hours to make voting more accessible, especially for younger voters who typically have lower turnout.

Special guests included California State Senator Ben Allen (SD-24) and Dean Logan, Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk.

First-Ever Vote Center at the Bangladeshi Community Development Center

CAUSE supported South Asian Network (SAN) in hosting the first-ever Vote Center at their Bangladeshi Community Development Center, just a little over a year after its opening. The center attracted 250+ attendees and, located in a strip mall serving an intersection of South Asian, Filipino, and Korean communities, offered cultural treats and voter resources, fostering interaction between diverse API groups.

First-Ever Jeepney SHUTTLE to a Vote Center

Together We Vote Fest guests rode an authentic 1944 Sarao Motors Jeepney, restored and cared for by Pilipino Workers Center (PWC), between The Oinkster and the Eagle Rock Branch Library Vote Center. The Jeepney shuttle service to and from the vote center pays homage to the historically cultural use of Jeepneys as public transportation in the Philippines. This was also the first time the Jeepney graced the streets of Eagle Rock, a neighborhood with a large Filipino population. Guests enjoyed karaoke on the Jeepney, engaged with PWC and CAUSE staff about voter resources, sampled banana ketchup, and grooved to music by DJ Key Kool of the Visionaries.

““It gave [us] memories from the Philippines. [It’s the] same thing like in the Philippines. They’ll get you with jeepney to go to the voting station.””

— Darius De La Rosa (Attendee)