A Billboard used in the 2010 Dunedin Local Election for the Greater Dunedin Group of Candidates
An excert taken from “I wouldn’t chuck this out!” –Applying Infographic Design and Information Shortcuts to Local Election Candidate Booklets
The city of Dunedin is situated on the South Island of New Zealand and is home to around 120, 000 inhabitants. As a case study for testing whether an improvement in local election voter information is necessary, Dunedin makes for a particularly useful example as a number of factors compound the problems of information scarcity and accessibility –namely its young seasonal population base, its electoral system and its recent change to an ‘at large’ central ward representation. As far as a ‘high cognitive cost of voting’ goes, Dunedin provides an excellent example. Read the rest of this entry »
