Got Objections? Petition Validator Now Builds Your Defense Packet

Every campaign that files petitions knows the feeling. The objections come in, the Board runs its records exam, and a preliminary report lands on your desk with hundreds of challenged lines and a number at the bottom that says you are short.

What comes next is usually days of work: finding each challenged signer on the right sheet and line, pulling up their voter record, and deciding which rulings are worth fighting. Most of it is lookup work, and most of it lands on staff and lawyers in the same week.

Petition Validator now does that work for you.

How the Defense Packet works

**Upload the Board's report.** Upload the objection report or preliminary summary as a PDF. Your petition sheets need to be in Petition Validator already, which they are if you validated as you collected.

**We read every challenged line.** Petition Validator reads the report page by page, checks the totals, and matches each challenged line to the signature on your sheet and to the voter file.

**A person checks every flagged line.** Our team reviews every line that needs human judgment before anything reaches you.

**You get the packet.** Within 12 hours of payment you get a PDF with the exhibits for each signature you can defend, plus a spreadsheet of every line, so you walk into the records exam knowing exactly how short you are and where to win lines back.

What it costs

A Defense Packet is $1,500 per petition, or $5,000 for a mayoral petition. Pages you have already uploaded use your normal credits.

The Defense Packet is preparation, not a legal filing. Your attorney still files and argues the case. It just starts with the exhibits already done, instead of a stack of paper and a long night.

Get started

Open your drive on [petitionvalidator.com](https://www.petitionvalidator.com) and choose Defense Packet. If your sheets aren't in Petition Validator yet, upload them first and we'll take it from there.