And I found out that the reason they weren't was because of a thing called gerrymandering, which basically meant that when voting districts were being drawn, our politicians would pick and choose which voters they wanted voting for them to all but guarantee that they were going to win the election, or that their political party was going to win an election.
Y descubrí que la razón de esta inactividad era por una cosa llamada manipulación electoral, que en suma significaba que, cuando se dibujaban los distritos electorales, nuestros políticos elegían qué votantes querían que votaran por ellos para garantizar su victoria electoral, o la de su propio partido político.