MMP loses… was it fair?

MMP lost. What a disappointment. Yet another year that my vote has made no difference, and I once again get 0% representation in government.

I heard a mini-poll conducted by a dude on the radio, asking people as they went into the polls, if they knew what the referendum question was. 6 out of 10 did not know anything about MMP. Never heard of it.

If you know what MMP was about - that puts you in a minority. Lots of informed people voted against MMP. Yet of all those uninformed people, I suspect that most would vote for the status quo rather than a change.

For those who were hoping to see electoral reform, it's a tragedy - an opportunity for electoral reform that we're not likely to get again this decade.

MMP was, IMHO, doomed to failure by the wording on the ballot. The referendum ballot should have looked more like:

Which electoral system do you want?
[ ] FPTP
[ ] MMP
[ ] I don't know the difference

... then we could have ignored all those that answered #3