In neighborhoods where Asian American voters lack English fluency, poll workers are the overlooked links to electoral participation.

…there was one piece of equipment that made it all possible: a SONY tape player that kept them in operation as if they were 24-hour newsroom. The machine would play ten cassettes one after the other.

“Once we printed Chinese upside-down and nobody knew it. That was embarrassing!”

“I’m beautiful all the time. Twenty-four hours!”