Even Shadow Senator Paul Strauss had a car in the parade. And a classic one, to boot.

As far as voting goes, D.C. residents have it pretty good.

Sure, there are tons of well-documented snafus at the D.C. Board of Elections—confusing mailers, some voters had to use a provisional ballot in the June primaries after a bug in the agency’s app switched some voters’ party affiliations, an audit of the 2014 elections found accessibility and staffing issues, and, of course, who could forget the upside down flag?

But while more than a dozen states have worked to restrict voting with new laws since the 2012 election (including Virginia), D.C. is trending in the opposite direction. We’ve got early voting, same-day registration, and, earlier this week, the D.C. Council unanimously passed automatic voter registration.

“At a time when many jurisdictions seem more interested in finding ways to block people from voting, I am proud that the District is moving in the opposite direction,” said Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen in a statement.

Interested in stepping into the shoes of someone voting in one of those other jurisdictions? The New York Times has outdone itself with “The Voter Suppression Trail,” an interactive game designed in the style of classics like Oregon Trail. It’s the first video game from the paper’s op-doc series on the election.

You can play as three different characters:

Not to spoil anything for you, but playing as the white programmer from California is short, has few dialogue boxes, and ends in victory.

The black salesman from Wisconsin, though, faces conundrums like this one:

And as a Latina nurse in Texas, you deal with dysentery, as in the original Oregon Trail, and play a modified version of Pac Man to avoid voter intimidation tactics.

If you fail to vote when playing as the voter in Texas or Wisconsin, you might end up seeing this graphic, as I did:

Remember, if you live in D.C. you can still vote early until 7 p.m. tonight.