Voting rights advocates called on the D.C. Council Thursday to install LED signs on two prominent buildings that would display the amount of federal tax dollars paid by disenfranchised District residents. Legislation introduced by Council Member Kwame Brown would require signs on the John A. Wilson Building and the new Washington Nationals ballpark.

Council members backed the idea. Chairman Vincent Gray said the signs would go a long way toward “educating and reminding individuals that District residents are denied a fundamental right.”