Compliance center
Four bodies of law shape this category. Here is each one.
Written for the campaign manager who has to answer for the data, not for a lawyer who already knows. Plain English, sources named, and the places we are unsure marked as unsure.
TCPA & texting
Prior express written consent, A2P 10DLC registration with a political authorization token, and a consent record that carries the language, the timestamp, the source URL and the version.
Read it →State privacy laws
Only Texas and Virginia expressly exempt political organizations. Colorado and New Jersey exempt no nonprofits. Oregon, Maryland, Delaware and Minnesota have only narrow exemptions.
Read it →FEC & in-kind contributions
Under 11 CFR 100.52(d), services must be billed at the usual and normal charge — a commercially reasonable rate prevailing at the time. Discounts outside the ordinary course of business can become in-kind contributions.
Read it →CIPA & website tracking
Trackers that fire before consent are the core exposure. The Ninth Circuit held in Javier v. Assurance IQ that prior consent is required and retroactive consent is not enough.
Read it →Voter file rules
Resolution is limited to your own consented first-party data plus a commercial identity graph. Deep voter-file matching requires a data partnership we have not signed.
Read it →Why a software company writes this much about law
Because compliance is the product. Every design decision in Ballot Signal — the consent gate that cannot be disabled, the four consent fields that cannot be stripped, the refusal to send an ad conversion for a declined visitor — exists because of something on one of these pages.
It is also because campaigns are routinely sold tools whose compliance story is a paragraph in a sales deck. You should be able to read what a vendor believes about the law, check it, and disagree. That is easier when they write it down.
Where we say we are not sure
Two places, deliberately. We do not publish a single confident date for the recent California pen-register rulings, because the dockets are easy to conflate and we would rather describe the holding. And we tell you to verify current 10DLC political registration requirements against Campaign Verify and your carrier's own documentation, because a lot of circulating dates come from vendor blogs rather than primary sources.
See what your own website already knows.
Book a 20-minute walkthrough. We will look at your site's current consent posture first — that part is useful whether or not you buy anything.