{
  "id": "BRD-243",
  "slug": "brd-243",
  "title": "A 527 organisation needs a token and its filing reference on record",
  "statement": "A 527 political organisation must hold a Campaign Verify token, and must record the FEC ID or state filing URL used to obtain it.",
  "rationale": "The token proves the organisation was verified; the filing reference proves which organisation it was verified as. Keeping only the token leaves a claim nobody can retrace when a carrier asks, and political programmes attract exactly that kind of question — usually in the last fortnight before an election.",
  "layer": "BRAND",
  "layerSlug": "brand",
  "object": "the Campaign Verify token + the filing reference",
  "severity": "BLOCKING",
  "detectability": [
    "EXTERNAL_DATA"
  ],
  "failureClass": "TERMINAL_EVIDENCE",
  "authorities": [
    "Infobip",
    "Campaign Verify",
    "TCR"
  ],
  "codes": [
    {
      "provider": "Infobip",
      "code": "9001",
      "remediable": true
    }
  ],
  "applicability": {
    "useCases": [
      "POLITICAL"
    ]
  },
  "applicabilityText": "Applies when the use case is POLITICAL.",
  "universal": false,
  "remediation": "Obtain the Campaign Verify token, and store the FEC committee ID or the state filing URL beside it in the same record. Done when both can be produced together in a single reply to a carrier query.",
  "notes": "Neither artefact is visible in a registration. What the user has to do is keep them together at the point they are obtained — the filing reference is easy to find while you are applying and surprisingly hard to reconstruct six months later.",
  "phase": "approval",
  "automated": false,
  "attestation": {
    "question": "Are the Campaign Verify token and the FEC committee ID or state filing URL stored together, retrievable in one reply?",
    "howToCheck": [
      "Record the filing reference beside the token at the moment you obtain it — it is easy to find while applying and surprisingly hard to reconstruct six months later.",
      "Test it: ask whoever answers carrier queries to produce both, now."
    ],
    "failureLooksLike": "Only the token was kept. It proves an organisation was verified and not which one, and the question arrives in the last fortnight before an election."
  },
  "url": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/brand/brd-243/",
  "markdown": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/brand/brd-243.md",
  "registry": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/",
  "updated": "2026-07-25",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}