Election Day is knocking on the door, and soon, so too will the members of Voice Your Vote.

Members of the organization, which is a commission of the Michigan Student Assembly, will be going door-to-door in residence halls starting Sept. 21 through Oct. 4, Michigan’s voter registration deadline for the November elections.

Peter Logan, University Housing spokesman, said VYV is approved to enter residence halls at pre-arranged times, as has been the case in previous election cycles.

“Their purpose is solely for encouraging students and assisting students in registering to vote,” he said.

Students who don’t want to hear from VYV can put a “No Soliciting” sign on their doors, Logan said.

During the registration period for the 2008 presidential election, the non-partisan group’s access to the residence halls was temporarily restricted when a University Housing staff member complained that representatives of the group were acting improperly. The complaint was resolved and the group was allowed to return to the residence halls.

LSA senior Kate Brierty, co-chair of the University’s chapter of Voice Your Vote, said because the group isn’t affiliated with a political party and instead focuses on registration and voter education, the group is well-received by students.

“It’s great being non-partisan because we can appeal to everyone,” Brierty said.

During the group’s door-to-door registration drive called “Dorm Storm,” trained VYV representatives will be registering students and answering questions about voting. The organization has also coordinated with the Ann Arbor City Clerk to have drop boxes available in the residence halls for students to return finished voter registration forms.

“We’re trying to put ourselves out of business,” Brierty said. “We want voter registration to be so institutionalized that we don’t need face-to-face contact to register every single voter.”

LSA senior D.J. Heebner, co-chair of VYV said the organization has a two-fold action plan every election cycle. Representatives work to register students before the voter registration deadline and then to spread the word about voting during the month leading up to Election Day, which is Nov. 2 this year.

“We want to make sure everyone knows about and acts on their right to vote,” Heebner said.

The MSA commission attends all MSA events, as well as Diag Day and other social functions in an effort to educate and register students. VYV has also reached out to resident advisors and graduate student instructors to become trained to register students to vote, according to Brierty and Heebner.

“We do a lot of work all throughout the University with different student groups and with the staff and faculty,” Brierty said. “It’s a great collaboration.”

But students have mixed feelings about the organization’s presence in the residence halls.

LSA junior Jordan Bailey — a resident of South Quad Residence Hall — said though he thinks registering people to vote is important, he thinks going into places where people live is excessive.

“I think going door-to-door is something that might be a little bit much,” Bailey said. “But going around maybe on the first floor and things like that would be less invasive.”

LSA freshman Lo-Han Yuan, who also lives in South Quad, said she isn’t registered to vote and wasn’t planning to register. But when asked about Voice Your Vote’s “Dorm Storm," she said she would consider registering if someone gave her the form and made the registration process more convenient.