The familiar rhythm of the festivals has been absent this year.

The Japanese spring festival in April. The Indian food festival in May. Filipino kamayan feasts in the fall.

Like so many other events this year, festivals across Asian American and Pacific Islander communities have been scuttled because of the coronavirus pandemic. So, too, has the typical voter outreach that happens around those events.

In what has been a strange year of campaigning across the board, those who work on Asian American and Pacific Islander, or AAPI, voter engagement have had to get creative with their efforts. They've traded in-person events for virtual ones, like the virtual kamayan held by Filipino-Americans for Biden-Harris Nevada, or a virtual candidate meet-and-greet held by the Las Vegas Asian Chamber of Commerce.

Pandemic or no pandemic, community leaders have been eager to get AAPI voters out to the polls.

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