codeforamerica/balance — pull request #113 by daguar (2014-09-07 19:37:16+00:00)
Title: Add support for Texas

This PR adds support for the state of Texas, with its 4,041,891 SNAP enrollees, on par with California. (source: http://www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/snap/2013-state-activity.pdf )

It also refactors how our robots "push buttons" — instead of putting button-pushing in the initial call, we call the number, THEN our URL issues the buttons to be pressed.

(This may also fix the issue stopping us from expanding to Massachusetts, see #52 )

Many thanks to @GregBaugues at @Twilio for helping me hack around some nuances of the Twilio API and making this possible.