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Re:North Carolina Is Ordered to Redraw Its Congressional Map by FireBeyond on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @12:08PM (#16116662)
It's certainly not an issue recently, but the UK used to have lots of issues with it, see rotten and pocket boroughs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotten_and_pocket_boroughs).
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Re:North Carolina Is Ordered to Redraw Its Congressional Map by stordoff on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @01:24PM (#16117446)
That's in some sense the opposite problem - constituency boundaries _didn't_ change so became manipulable, rather than the boundaries being deliberately drawn to introduce bias.
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