Coalition for Non-Partisan Redistricting for adopting
redistricting plans in Texas The Legislature would not adopt a
specific district map, but would adopt an act specifying the
parameters according to which a computer program would draw the
district map. The computer program to be used would be Target, a
program already written under the aegis of the Texas Legislative
Council, consisting of a random map-generating engine written in
Scheme, a dialect of LISP, with a user interface written in
Visual Basic. The parameters would be as follows: 1. District
boundaries would snap to county boundaries, except for counties
that are split. 2. Only counties with a population of 60,000 or
greater would be split, and within those counties, district
boundaries would snap to township boundaries if possible. 3.
Each district would have equal population, to within a error of
0.01 percent 4. Each district would be compact, defined by
minimizing the value of p²/4A for each district, where p =
perimeter, A = area. 5. Districts