Conservation of space can be of paramount importance to preserving the integrity of a design while implementing a Drupal site! However some components of a Drupal site are truly space hogs! Polls are an excellent example.
One of my personal "beefs" with polls is that the space of the poll is used wastefully as well as inconsistently. This is particularly true of the results layout. As you may remember, if you have used Drupal polls, each choice in the voting form uses one line of space (typically), whereas the results layout that you see after voting use three lines for each choice. Yuk!
So, I decided to remedy this and condense the results into one liners as well. To do this I needed to move the choice text down into the poll bar as well as move the statistical info up beside the poll bar.