Detroiters for Reform, a grasssroots organization that was aiming to change how Detroit City Council members are elected to their positions did not get the required amount of signatures to have their proposed measure put on the upcoming November ballot.

Currently, Detroit’s nine council members are elected at large; Detroiters for Reform was trying to get a proposal on the ballot that would call for council members to be elected by specified, assigned districts, rather than by any Detroit citizen.

This is not the first time an initiative like this has failed.

The group has until May 9, 2006 ^[1], to get the rest of the signatures if it would like to have the initiative put on the August 2006 primary ballot.