Play NYT's Oregon Trail Inspired Voter Suppression Video Game

Watch out for the dysentery and the poll watchers.

Our reserve of nostalgia for computer game The Oregon Trail is bottomless, and so when we learned that The New York Times partnered with GOP Arcade to create a video game on voter suppression in the same style, we played, testing out scenarios for every player available.

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We endured long lines, angry bosses, ID checks, long trips to our polling place, ran away from “poll watchers,” and, in a nod to OG Oregon Trail, dealt with people coming down with dysentery.

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