A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the States, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the election of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a State; and they shall meet in the District and perform such duties as provided by the twelfth article of amendment.
Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article using appropriate legislation.
This amendment gave the District of Columbia the same amount of electors as the next smallest state in the Union, which is currently 3 electoral votes. The district still does not have any actual congressman in the House or Senate.
The fact that they can't vote for congressman has prompted the phrase "taxation without representation" to appear on license plates in DC.
The idea of taxation without representation was even worse before this amendment, which at least allows the district to count towards the electoral college.
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