D.C. officials are urging voters to request absentee ballots for the June 2 primary — you have until May 26 to do so — but they are also opening 20 vote centers across the city for in-person voting.

D.C. Vote has kicked off an ad campaign encouraging residents to vote for a charter amendment that would grant the city additional control over locally raised dollars.

A group of activists want the city’s new uniform color scheme for taxicabs to include the phrase “Taxation Without Representation.”

Mayor Vince Gray and other officials and voting rights advocates showed off the reviewing stand from which local leaders will watch next Monday’s inaugural parade.

The White House made no promises this afternoon on whether President Obama would place D.C.’s “Taxation Without Representation” license plates on his limo, as the D.C. Council and activists have requested.

Thanks to a molasses-like security perimeter outside a special area designated for protests outside the Democratic National Convention, D.C. Mayor Vince Gray was unable to address a Charlotte crowd on the push for D.C. statehood.

At a quick press conference yesterday before the D.C. Council’s first legislative session of 2012, Mayor Vince Gray and most of the D.C. Council touted their upcoming trip to New Hampshire, where they will lobby the state legislature there to endorse District statehood.

You know, we’re pretty bummed out about the District’s lack of voting rights, but we’d never even think about comparing our situation to what’s going on in Egypt, where people are dying, journalists are being arrested and demonstrations have drawn millions willing to drop everything for days in order to stand up for what they believe in, regardless of the danger. Of course, we don’t have to make that comparison, because Ralph Nader has already made it for us.

Instead of offering up a roundup of all things D.C. voting rights as we approach the end of the year (in short: we didn’t get any), I’d like to credit the folks at D.C. Vote with a festive and holiday-themed way to get their point across.

Photo by Pak Gwei With plans to re-introduce legislation that would grant the District a voting seat in the House set for this Thursday, House Democratic Leaders, D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton and various D.C. voting rights advocates are facing increasing dissent from within over an amendment that would scrap the city’s gun laws. Last week’s news that the legislation would be brought back and that Del. Norton was folding on her longstanding opposition…