The producer told him it was going to be an interview, but David Enrich ’01 sensed an ambush. From the Fox News Boston studio, he watched as Fox & Friends anchor Steve Doocy teased the segment. Shots of one of Enrich’s Web sites, votewithamerica.com, flashed across the screen. "There’s a Web site that’s been hard at work making electors’ personal information available, trying to get these people to switch sides—Republican to Democrat—and throw us into a constitutional crisis! How do you feel about that?" Cut to commercial.

Ten minutes later, Enrich was on the air, tag-teamed by anchors Doocy and Brian Kilmeade, who were shouting more accusations than questions: "You’re trying to overturn the apple cart!" "If you’ve ever been interrupted by an AT&T salesperson at dinner time, you know how annoying those calls are!" Enrich responded calmly: The Founding Fathers intended the Electoral College to be a deliberative body, not a pawn of political parties. It’s the electors whom we vote for on Election Day, and just like senators and congressmen, they should be subject to public scrutiny.

Later that day, the electors named George W. Bush president. The biggest campaign undertaken by Citizens for True Democracy (CTD), the organization founded by Enrich and Matt Grossmann ’01, had ended—but not before generating 100,000 e-mails and 2,000 phone calls to electors.

David Enrich ’01 and Matt Grossmann ’01 in the Citizens for True Democracy office—their student apartment.