...do you truly wish for me to bore you with the tedium of Senate politics?

[He laughs.]

We're dealing with mages, here, and cunning ones. Being voted out requires, well, a vote. It's easier to make those who disagree simply...disappear, which I suppose is what's caused this problem in the first place, but when assassination and false imprisonment are the usual answers to disagreement, changing the norm becomes tedious at best.