Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez encourages voting by playing video games online

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Playing video games live on Twitch may not seem like the most obvious way to attract more Americans to the polls.

But Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not one to take a conventional approach.

The Democratic congresswoman took the online streaming platform by storm Tuesday night and live-streamed a game of "Among Us" against fellow Democrat Ilhan Omar and popular Twitch users Pokimane, HasanAbi and Myth.

"My God… Can you hear me?" Ocasio-Cortez said as she tried to orient herself on the platform, which is used primarily for live streaming video games.

This is pretty wild.

I'm so excited".

Twitch, which was launched in 2011, also features live broadcasts of music, sports, and talk shows.

The president of the United States, Donald Trump, and the senator of Vermont, Bernie Sanders, have accounts on the platform.

Twitch was bought by Amazon for $ 1 billion in 2014. The platform says it has 17.5 million daily visitors and 1.5 million viewers at a time.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitch

Ocasio-Cortez has appeared on Twitch before, having once called for a fundraising broadcast last year.

But now he has an account and has already reached 545,000 followers.

Her debut video, which lasted over three hours, has garnered more than 4.5 million views.

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The New Yorker took the opportunity to encourage viewers to vote by directing them to IWillVote.com, a Democratic party website with voting information.

"That's what tonight is really about and, of course, we are here to vote blue," he said, referring to the Democratic party.

Its broadcast peaked at 435,000 viewers, according to a report by The Verge quoting Twitch.

That would make the stream in the top 20 largest streams ever on the website, based on data from third-party metrics site TwitchTracker.

CNN Business has reached out to Twitch for comment.

Ocasio-Cortez talked about voting with other players while playing “Among Us,” a murder mystery game similar to Mafia.

A group of innocents live their daily lives while murderers, who have concealed their identities, commit crimes at night.

The group must determine who is guilty and get rid of the impostors before they lose the majority.

The congresswoman asked the other players on the live stream how they planned to vote.

Myth, who has 7 million followers on Twitch, said on Twitter that this would be his first time voting.

"It's very easy to do it," he told his 2.3 million Twitter followers in a post.

Trump's Twitch account, which the Republican leader launched last October, has 143,000 followers and is used to broadcast rallies and other campaign events.

Sanders, a Democratic presidential hopeful, launched an account in July last year and has 159,000 followers.

The account regularly broadcasts conversations on social justice issues.

- Shannon Liao and Helen Regan contributed to this report.

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