A couple of thoughts

[tempest]

Yeah, but IMO that's simply due to the fact that the voting system is broken. Not voting shouldn't count as a "no" vote, period. There are exactly two reasons why you'd (want to) abstain:
1) you don't care about the vote, or you don't know enough to vote
2) you don't know about F1/F2
I don't see why either of these should count as a no.