Grand Theft Election Minneapolis

Granted, you can pick up prostitutes and carjack in the Grand Theft Auto game series, but Grand Theft Election has some pretty great things going for it too.

In GTE, you play Al. Al is a washed up, has been comedian who decides one day he wants to run for the US Senate. He appears to be a good fit, except that more people have been laughing at congressman than have ever laughed at Al's jokes.

At some point in the game after Al loses a close election, Al's election team needs to start challenging individual ballots in an effort to steal the election. Although this is a fictitious game with no reference to actual real life people, here is a good example of what one of those ballots would look like:

You would think it's a pretty difficult game, but there's a number of cheat codes you can plug at the beginning.

These codes put a large percentage of the media behind you regardless of how ridiculous you sound.

I get the feeling these codes also stack the deck with Al leaning judges and election officials, turning Grand Theft Election into an entirely winnable game.

Good thing it's only a game, because if this were to happen in real life it would be a terrible indication of how democracy is being flushed down the toilet and partisan politics is put before Country.

Good thing...