Seeking clarification on voting requirement for staking rewards

So the Staking Proposal states “Only stakers who have participated in governance votes at least twice during the governance lock-up period will receive staking rewards.” In context, that would seem to mean “twice during the time in which their tokens have been staked”. Does that mean that even once staking is active and tokens are staked, no one can earn rewards until another two votes have taken place? Seems like if this is a factor there needs to be votes available on a very regular basis.