After being suspended Friday for alleged violations of University policy and election law, voter registration resumed in the residence halls with full force.

Voice Your Vote, a non-partisan Michigan Student Assembly commission and the only group authorized to register students door-to-door in the residence halls, was temporarily barred from carrying out its planned drive in Couzens Hall Monday.

The group’s access to the residence halls was restricted after University Housing staff member Lee Evilsizer said she received complaints about students registering voters in the dorms.

Voice Your Vote co-chairs Hannah Lieberman and Rebecca Egler and Michigan Student Assembly President Sabrina Shingwani met with University Housing representatives, Evilsizer, Assistant Dean of Students Susan Wilson and Trelawny Boynton, an associate director in residence education, yesterday afternoon to discuss the group’s conduct in the residence halls.

After the meeting, Voice Your Vote was granted access to the residence halls again.

In an e-mail statement, Housing spokesman Peter Logan wrote, “the meeting today between University Housing and Voice Your Vote went very well, and concerns that led to the meeting have been resolved.”

Logan did not return several messages seeking further information regarding the incident.

Evilsizer told Egler and Lieberman in an e-mail sent Friday she had received complaints that alleged a person tried to convince a student who would not be 18 on Election Day to use a fake birth date when registering.

In the e-mail, Evilsizer also cited complaints of Voice Your Vote members wearing campaign buttons supporting Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama — a violation of the group’s pledge to remain non-partisan.

In an interview after yesterday’s meeting, Lieberman, an LSA junior, denied that Voice Your Vote representatives acted in a partisan way.

Lieberman went on to say that specific alleged incidents weren’t discussed during the meeting.

“There was no need to discuss the specifics of the incidents because we both had a mutual understanding of where Voice Your Vote stands on non-partisanship,” she said.

LSA senior Shingwani, who is a member of Voice Your Vote, said she was she was certain those accused of violating Housing’s policy weren’t members of Voice Your Vote.

“I don’t know who was responsible for that, nor does Housing,” she said.

Only Lieberman, Egler and Shingwani were allowed to go door-to-door Monday for a planned registration drive in Couzens.

Everyone trained and authorized by Voice Your Vote — about 70 people, according to Lieberman — is now allowed to register students in the residence halls.

In a separate meeting yesterday, representatives from University Housing and the Office of the General Counsel met with representatives of the College Democrats and lawyers for the Obama campaign to “review and clarify the University's Campaign Guidelines,” Logan said.

“We have a responsibility to ensure that those to whom we grant access to University residence halls follow University (including Housing) policies as well as state and federal laws,” he said. “Those policies preclude partisan door-to-door activities, consistent with our obligations under state and federal law not to endorse candidates or use public resources to support or oppose candidates or ballot proposals.”

An amendment added to the Higher Education Act when it was renewed in 1989 requires that any university receiving federal funding make a “good-faith” effort to provide students with access to voter registration forms.

To comply, the University encourages students to register to vote through Voice Your Vote drives and other methods.