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Hillary using Pokémon Go to register voters

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New York: Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has started to use the newly-launched Augmented Reality (AR) game Pokémon Go as a campaigning tool to register voters.
The game, which came out on July 6, encourages users to walk around and visit “PokéStops” where they can acquire items for the game like Poké Balls and “gyms” where they can fight against other players.
PokéStops and gyms are real locations in the real world.
“For instance, there’s a gym on a small traffic island by the Vox DC offices and the Embassy of Iraq is a PokéStop and a reliable source of Poké Balls,” news website vox.com reported on Friday.
Campaign organisers for Clinton started campaigning at PokéStops and gyms to register Pokémon Go players to vote.
Another news website Cincinnati Enquirer reported that Clinton’s Ohio staff spent the past weekend going “from Cuyahoga to Athens to seek out players in their communities to register them to vote”.
There is even an official Hillary event scheduled in Lakewood, Ohio, pegged to the game. (IANS)

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