The political filing email must match the registration

The requirementstatement

For an Aegis political vet, the filing email must exactly match the email on the political registration, and must not be a consumer domain.

Severityseverity: BlockingBLOCKINGBreaking this rule gets the submission rejected. There is no partial credit.
When it bitesphase: Gates approvalapprovalGet this wrong and the brand or campaign is refused at registration.
What is checkedobject: the political filing email
Where it liveslayer: BrandBRAND
How Ekas settles itdetectability: AI · formAI_FORMExternal recordEXTERNAL_DATA; A semantic question about what you wrote: whether a description matches a use case, whether a name looks like a filed entity. Judged by a model against written criteria. The fact that settles it lives in a register we cannot query, such as the IRS file, a postal database, or another provider’s tenant. Reported as a warning with the evidence to check, not as a pass.
What the fix involvesfailureClass: Fix the fieldRETRY_FIELD; A better value in the form fixes it. Ekas can rewrite it and re-check.
Who requires itauthorities: TCRAegis
When it appliesapplicabilityText: Applies when the use case is POLITICAL.

Why this rule existsrationale

The vet confirms that the person filing is the one named in the public political registration, and the email is the identifier it compares — so a campaign manager who files with their own address fails a check about somebody else's identity. Consumer domains are refused outright, which catches small local campaigns that genuinely run from a personal mailbox.

How to fix itremediation

Use the exact email address on the FEC or state filing. If that filing carries a consumer address, update the filing first — the vet compares against the register, so the register is what has to change.

A compliant exampleexample

filing email: press@riversideshelter.org, matching the address on the committee filing — not a personal gmail address

Check this yourselfattestation

Ekas flags this from what you submit, but the fact that settles it sits somewhere only you can reach.

Is the filing email on the vet order character-identical to the email on the FEC or state political registration, and is it not a consumer domain?

1Open your own political filing and copy the address from it.
2Where the filing itself carries a personal address, update the filing first — the vet compares against the register, so the register is what has to change.

What wrong looks like: A campaign manager files with their own address. The vet is checking somebody else's identity, the fee is spent on the mismatch, and small local campaigns that genuinely run from a personal mailbox are refused outright.

Notesnotes

Whether the address matches the political register needs the register itself, which we do not hold. What the judgement can see is whether a consumer domain was used, which is the half that is refused outright. The user has to compare the address against their own filing before ordering the vet, because the fee is spent on the mismatch.

Rules you will hit next

Other brand rules at the same severity. A registration is judged as a whole, not rule by rule.

BRD-001A legal company name is required for every entity but a sole proprietorBlockingBLOCKING BRD-002Legal name must match the IRS record for the EINBlockingBLOCKING BRD-003Legal name must carry its exact entity suffix as filedBlockingBLOCKING BRD-008Legal name must not carry an appended personal name or roleBlockingBLOCKING BRD-009The legal name field takes the legal name, not the trading nameBlockingBLOCKING BRD-011A legal business name may back only one brand across the whole registryBlockingBLOCKING

All brand rules

BRD-249 is one of 196 brand rules in the 915-rule 10DLC registry. Free to cite under CC BY 4.0.