A ballot initiative that would ban corporate contributions to local campaigns has been knocked off the November ballot, but the group behind it hopes that D.C. residents will be able to vote on the measure at some point next year.

Today a judge granted organizers with the D.C. Public Trust a four-week extension to review the more than 30,000 signatures on petitions they submitted to get the measure on the November ballot. Last month the D.C. Board of Elections ruled that the group had fallen short of the 23,298 signatures it needed to appear on the ballot, but the group challenged the way the elections board counted valid signatures.

With today’s decision, the group’s initiative will have no chance to make it on the November ballot. Organizers aren’t fazed, though, saying that they hope to get on a the ballot for the special election that will likely have to be called to fill the At-Large seat currently held by D.C. Council Chair Phil Mendelson and that he will have to vacate should be win election in November to finish out the last two years of former chairman Kwame Brown’s term.

“D.C. Public Trust appreciates the court’s decision to allow a thorough review,” said Bryan Weaver, one of the organizers behind the initiative. “It is not what we had hoped for, but we feel this is the best path to ensuring the integrity of the process.”

The group remains concerned that 3,116 signatures of D.C. voters were invalidated because the addresses provided did not match those on file with the elections board; during the next four weeks, it will be able to confirm whether enough signatures it submitted are valid to get the measure on the ballot.