Political use case requires a non-profit brand with political vetting

The requirementstatement

The POLITICAL use case must sit on a NON_PROFIT brand carrying external political vetting recognised by both AT&T and T-Mobile.

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: brand.entity_type + campaign.usecase
Where it liveslayer: Brand ↔ campaignCROSS
How Ekas settles itdetectability: DeterministicDETERMINISTIC; Settled in code from the values you submitted. No model involved, no judgement call, same answer every time.
What the fix involvesfailureClass: Wait on someone elseTERMINAL_EXTERNAL; Needs an external system or a waiting period, such as IRS propagation, a vetting result, or a carrier queue.
Who requires itauthorities: TCRAT&TT-Mobile
When it appliesapplicabilityText: Applies when the use case is POLITICAL.

Why this rule existsrationale

Political messaging is the most scrutinised category on the network, and both major carriers require independent verification that the sender is who they claim to be before granting throughput. Vetting is imported into TCR from an external provider, so it cannot be satisfied by anything you type into the form.

How to fix itremediation

Register the brand as NON_PROFIT, then obtain political vetting (Campaign Verify or an equivalent both carriers accept) and import it into TCR before submitting the campaign. Do not order a political vet for a brand that already holds 501(c)(3/4/5/6) status — that combination is disallowed.

Check this yourselfattestation

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

Is political vetting already imported and visible on the brand, rather than ordered, in progress, or held only as a certificate you have not uploaded?

1Open the brand at your provider and confirm a political vet (Campaign Verify, or an equivalent both AT&T and T-Mobile accept) is listed against it.
2Confirm the brand's entity type is NON_PROFIT, and that it does not also hold 501(c)(3/4/5/6) status — that combination is disallowed.

What wrong looks like: The certificate is sitting in an inbox rather than in TCR. Nothing on the campaign form says the vetting is missing, and the campaign is refused for a brand that looks complete.

Notesnotes

Off-platform: only the entity type is checkable here. The vetting itself is bought from an external provider and imported into TCR, so the user must obtain it themselves and confirm the import landed before submitting — we can never return anything better than UNCLEAR on that half, and a PASS on entity type is not a prediction that the campaign will be approved.

Rules you will hit next

2 other rules read brand.entity_type + campaign.usecase. Fixing one field to satisfy a single rule is how a resubmission trades one rejection for another, so read these before you change anything.

XBC-001Sole proprietor brands may only run the sole proprietor use caseBlockingBLOCKING XBC-004Emergency and public-safety use cases exclude sole proprietorsBlockingBLOCKING XBC-002Charity use case requires a verified 501(c)(3) non-profit brandBlockingBLOCKING XBC-005Sole proprietor brand and campaign both require a reference IDBlockingBLOCKING XBC-006The brand must be verified before its campaign is submittedBlockingBLOCKING XBC-007A public company must finish two-factor identity before any campaignBlockingBLOCKING

All brand ↔ campaign rules

XBC-003 is one of 13 brand ↔ campaign rules in the 915-rule 10DLC registry. Free to cite under CC BY 4.0.