The Examiner’s Michael Neibauer reports today that the D.C. Council is considering requiring all license plates issued by the District Department of Motor Vehicles to be the ‘Taxation Without Representation’ version. Currently, residents may request a license plate from the DMV that bears the city’s web site url, “www.dc.gov,” instead of the voting rights slogan.

The story predictably quotes voting rights rabble rouser Mark Plotkin saying he thinks making the plate mandatory is the right thing to do, but fails to address the most obvious question in our minds — will the slogan still carry the same weight in the event the DC Voting Rights Act, which was reintroduced in the House and Senate yesterday, is passed?

It’s an issue that places voting rights pragmatists who have been pushing the current bill versus those who think settling for only one House member amounts to agreeing that the District deserves less than full representation. If the bill passes, District residents would still be being taxed without representation in the Senate, but we would no longer be able to claim that we have zero representation in Congress.

Would you support changing the slogan if the current bill passes? Or would bothering to point out that we have Taxation With 1/3 Representation just look ridiculous?