Tax-exempt status is not a political vet

The requirementstatement

Uncapped political throughput requires a valid political vetting artefact; 501(c) tax-exempt status alone yields only standard terms.

Severityseverity: MediumMEDIUMUsually survives review, but lowers your trust score or invites a manual look you would rather avoid.
When it bitesphase: After you are livepostFalls due once you are sending: STOP handling, quiet hours, suppression, record retention.
What is checkedobject: political vetting artefact against throughput terms
Where it liveslayer: OperationalOPERATIONAL
How Ekas settles itdetectability: External recordEXTERNAL_DATA; 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: 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: T-MobileTCR
When it appliesapplicabilityText: Applies when the use case is POLITICAL.

Why this rule existsrationale

Both facts sit on the brand record and one of them looks like the other, so a non-profit running a political programme reasonably expects its tax status to carry the throughput. It does not: the carriers want independent verification that the sender is who they claim, and a tax exemption verifies something else entirely.

How to fix itremediation

Obtain a political vet — Campaign Verify or an equivalent both carriers accept — and import it, if the programme needs uncapped throughput. Done when the throughput you planned against is backed by the artefact that grants it.

Check this yourselfattestation

No tool can settle this one for you. Here is the check, and what wrong looks like.

Which artefact does the brand actually hold — a political vet, or 501(c) tax-exempt status?

1Read the brand record. Both facts sit there and one looks like the other.
2Only a political vet — Campaign Verify or an equivalent both carriers accept — grants uncapped political throughput.
3Obtain and import one if the programme needs that volume.

What wrong looks like: A non-profit running a political programme expects its tax status to carry the throughput. The carriers want independent verification that the sender is who they claim, and a tax exemption verifies something else entirely.

Notesnotes

Throughput terms granted by the carriers. What the user has to do is check which artefact their brand actually holds before planning volume; XBC-003 refuses a political campaign with no vetting at all, which is the approval-side question rather than this one.

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OPS-130 is one of 139 operational rules in the 915-rule 10DLC registry. Free to cite under CC BY 4.0.