Possible Clues:

• Sailors talked of stress, refusing to vote
• Refusal to vote for temporary accommodation in unstable Bosnia
• Act of declining to vote
• Perversely obstinate over decision, ultimately producing this?
• Bet on saint being drunk? Not if he practises this
• Sitting on fence causes strain, they say, on muscles
• Jack, note, isn't represented, refusing to vote
• Seaman's shelter no one backs, withholding vote
• Withholding of vote