With just six days remaining before the deadline to register to vote in Michigan, University Housing has barred all but three members of the only group that can sign up voters in residence halls from registering students in the dorms.

A University Housing staff member sent an e-mail Friday to the co-chairs of Voice Your Vote, a Michigan Student Assembly commission, telling them suspend all voter registration efforts in the residence halls. The staffer cited complaints she received about people registering voters in the dorms. One complaint alleged that one person tried to convince a student who was under 18 to use a fake birthday when registering. She also cited complaints of Voice Your Vote members wearing campaign buttons supporting Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama — a violation of the group’s agreement with the University, which requires it to remain non-partisan.

The University hasn’t shown evidence that the complaints are valid or that the people involved were acting as representatives of Voice Your Vote. In a statement, Housing spokesman Peter Logan said his department had restricted Voice Your Vote access to residence halls until concerns regarding the conduct of Voice Your Vote representatives can be resolved.

“We are meeting with VYV leaders soon, and hopefully University Housing will be assured that the registration campaign can resume in the halls,” he said.

Egler said she and Leiberman will meet with University Housing representatives at noon today to discuss the program’s future.

At 9 a.m. today, members of the College Democrats and lawyers from Obama’s campaign will also meet with representatives from University Housing and the Office of the General Counsel to discuss the College Democrats’s voter registration efforts on campus, according to a member of the College Democrats executive board who spoke on the condition of anonymity so as not to jeopardize talks with the University.

In the e-mail to Egler and Leiberman, Housing staff member Lee Evilsizer said she wanted to meet with the two chairs “to reiterate the expectations around registering students to vote and to discuss whether the program will continue.”

While Voice Your Vote is the only group University Housing allows to register students in residence halls, several groups are working to register voters on campus. Those include the University’s chapter of the College Democrats, the Obama campaign, the nonprofit group Progressive Future, the political Action Committee MoveOn.org.

The College Democrats have not coordinated registration drives in the dorms, but it encourages its members to talk with their friends and neighbors about Obama and help them register to vote.

In the e-mail, Evilsizer said she received a complaint from a resident who said someone who offered to help him or her register to vote. The student wrote that after saying he or she wouldn’t be 18 before Election Day, “she asked if I would have voted for Obama. When I told her that I would have, she handed me a registration form and told me that 1991 could easily be mistaken for 1990 depending on my handwriting."

The e-mail sent by Evilsizer did not indicate where or when the incident occurred, or which group the person who allegedly encouraged a student to falsify the form was affiliated with.

“Clearly this is not the registration efforts Housing had in mind when we agreed to allow VYV in the residence halls,” Evilsizer wrote in the e-mail.

Egler, who is also member of the College Democrats, said she was certain a Voice Your Vote volunteer wouldn’t express support for any candidate or encourage a student to violate federal law.

“Before sending volunteers out, we debrief them on Michigan voting laws,” Egler said.