We called Rock The Vote and the Federal Election Commission and asked them about student registration laws. Specifically, we wanted to know what the laws were in each state regarding residency, what determined it and what the benefits of it were, so that we could provide people with information about what it meant to vote back home with an absentee ballot, and what it meant to vote locally.

The power of this information would be that we might be able to convince enough people to vote locally to take over the local government. Nobody had ever really figured out how to enfranchise students, and we were getting pretty close. When we started gathering the information, we took it to the schools around Boston and asked their administration if they'd be willing to incorporate voter registration with class registration. Showing them the work we had done, one by one they agreed.

Things were really starting to come together. And it was still only late fall.