Election Night Graphics

I’ve posted this over on Throng as well, but thought I’d add it here too:

I just saw this graph on TVNZ’s election coverage:

Putting aside the issue of using a perspective graph makes it harder to compare, there’s something wrong with this graph: the informal votes (labelled INF) bar is not correct.

The correct graph should look like this:

Update: there are faint notches in their graphic indicating the “0” mark, however it’s not a clear enough distinction.