DURHAM, NC—Remember the North Carolina congressional district denounced by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor as unconstitutionally “bizarre”?¶ Well, things just got a little bizarrer—perhaps so bizarre that it may finally be possible to do something sensible about a serious issue of electoral equity.

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