How was this declined, when 72% so far voted yes?
Military Area EU is almost always populated, where as regular VSH EU is empty quite a few times during the day.
So a lot of the times, when people join Saxton Hale EU it's to NOT play Military Area, since they could play that pretty much anytime of the day on a populated server.
What happens is, a few newer players who doesn't even know Military EU exists will vote for Military Area when it pops up, which then results in many players, who literally joined just to avoid Military Area, starts leaving including myself. I've seen the server die quite often because of this when the player count was low.
Adding to that Military Area's pick % is pretty low and usually maps with low votes are removed, so why not military? Rats office was removed quite quickly, when people didn't vote for it as much despite being a map people actually liked.
Sure, with the low pick % on the map it might not seem like a massive problem, but it's an easily solveable one, so why not just remove it?