Building on the buzz of the US’s “data.gov” government data portal, some European groups have started building “EPVotes“.  The European Parliament elections are just 2 months away, and they hope that by exposing the individual trends of the parliament members, that perhaps the EU can see some of the “change” that the US is hoping for.

Laurent the website’s current designer is open for your constructive design critique “The main idea for the design was to keep it simple… no fancy graphics use lines and white spaces a reduced colour pallet and build the page in such a way that one does not need explanatory texts. But by adding features I see that it starts to be crowded. I would need to think about something new. Unfortunately my design talents are only so good : Do you have some comments “

via EPVote: Tracking the Votes of the European Union Parliament – information aesthetics.