Friday, October 08, 2010

Dearth of decent graphics and data for NZ local elections

The papers have made little effort and are mainly sticking to articles. The worst use of a map that I have seen for a long while can be found at http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/local-elections-2010-map

The only site that makes any effort is the official elections2010.co.nz site. Unfortunately it has some serious flaws. No effort is made to explain how many candidates in a ward or board will be elected, which makes the results fairly meaningless. The elections for a particular region are presented in one enormous page full of photo thumbnails that takes an eternity to load for populous regions - this is particularly bad for Auckland.

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