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Chris Nelums

Commissioner of Agriculture — South Carolina • Party: United Citizens

Factual metadata

Chris Nelums is listed by SCVotes as an active United Citizens candidate for the 11/3/2026 Statewide General Election.

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Basic biography

Age and career facts

Age: Not sourced yet
Career: Not sourced yet

Career record

Public career

Chris Nelums is listed as a candidate for Commissioner of Agriculture — South Carolina.

Career record

Private career

No private-sector or non-government career source has been linked for Chris Nelums yet.

Profile-relevant media

Quotes, posts, and clips tied to this values profile

3 items

Ballotpedia questionnaire

Election integrity

“Democratic primary election Democratic primary for South Carolina State Senate District 19 Incumbent Tameika Isaac Devine defeated Michael Addison in the Democratic primary for South Carolina State Senate District 19 on June 11, 2024.”

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Ballotpedia questionnaire

Election integrity

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Official record

Ballot access

“SCVotes candidate listing includes active candidate filings by office, associated counties, party, filing location, and candidate status.”

Touches Government transparency; not directly matched to the saved profile labels. • Candidate Listing — 11/3/2026 Statewide General Election

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Campaign promises

Top campaign promises

Campaign promises

Election integrity

Chris Nelums's Ballotpedia questionnaire answer indicates a stated position on Election integrity: Democratic primary election Democratic primary for South Carolina State Senate District 19 Incumbent Tameika Isaac Devine defeated Michael Addison in the Democratic primary for South Carolina State Senate District 19 on June 11, 2024.

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Campaign promises

Election integrity

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Policy plans

Major concrete policy plans

No concrete policy plan has been linked yet.

Candidate position profile

Normalized issue stances from evidence

This is the canonical data layer the agreement score uses: tiered candidate issue positions, where stronger evidence replaces lower-tier party fallback data.

8% coverage • high confidence

Elections and democracy

support • high confidence

4 evidence items across 2 sources. Strongest source: Ballotpedia questionnaire. Evidence tier: 1 — Direct candidate policy/questionnaire/voting evidence.

Unknown issue axes: 11. Tier 4 starts from party fallback; higher-tier evidence replaces it when available.

Issue-by-issue agreement

12 user positions vs. 12 candidate positions

Rows are grouped by candidate source-data tier first, then sorted as agreed, disagreed, and unknown. Unknown stays unknown when either side has no usable issue position. Radical anti-vibes technology.

No comparable agreement yet • 0 agreed • 0 disagreed • 12 unknown

User issue coverage

0/12

Candidate issue coverage

1/12

Comparable positions

0/12

Overall agreement

N/A

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Tier 1 — direct policy, questionnaire, or voting evidence

1 issue

Elections and democracy

unknown

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Unknown

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Candidate position

Support

high confidence • 4 evidence items

Source: Ballotpedia questionnaire

Agreement

N/A

Unknown — no candidate issue position

11 issues

Abortion and reproductive rights

unknown

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Unknown

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Agreement

N/A

Civil liberties and privacy

unknown

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Unknown

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Unknown

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Agreement

N/A

Cost of living / housing

unknown

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Unknown

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Unknown

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Agreement

N/A

Education

unknown

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Unknown

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Unknown

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Agreement

N/A

Environment and energy

unknown

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Unknown

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Unknown

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Agreement

N/A

Guns

unknown

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Unknown

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Unknown

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Agreement

N/A

Healthcare

unknown

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Unknown

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N/A

Immigration

unknown

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Unknown

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Agreement

N/A

Jobs and economy

unknown

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Unknown

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Unknown

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Agreement

N/A

Public safety / crime

unknown

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Unknown

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Unknown

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Agreement

N/A

Taxes and spending

unknown

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Unknown

No saved official issue position for this issue

Candidate position

Unknown

No normalized candidate issue position

Agreement

N/A

Voting record consistency

N/A

No voting record loaded

No sourced roll-call or official vote records are linked for this candidate yet.

Current polling numbers

Commissioner of Agriculture — South Carolina

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Evidence record

Claims linked to sources

4 claims

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Chris Nelums has lower-tier biography/profile context related to Election integrity; treat this as an inferred priority, not an explicit policy stance.

Issue: Election integrity

Candidate biography/context signal

“Chris Nelums is listed by SCVotes as an active United Citizens candidate for the 11/3/2026 Statewide General Election. United Citizens Party candidate; prior South Carolina State Senate candidate”

Chris Nelums - BallotpediaBallotpedia • Ballotpedia candidate profile and Candidate Connection questionnaire lead. Questionnaire answers are candidate self-reported and high-confidence for stated positions, not voting behavior. Extracted questionnaire answers are source-backed self-reported statements and should not be treated as voting behavior. • fetched 2026-07-10

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Source-backedHigh confidencesource adapter

Chris Nelums's Ballotpedia questionnaire answer indicates a stated position on Election integrity: Democratic primary election Democratic primary for South Carolina State Senate District 19 Incumbent Tameika Isaac Devine defeated Michael Addison in the Democratic primary for South Carolina State Senate District 19 on June 11, 2024.

Issue: Election integrity

Government transparencyInstitutional accountability

“Democratic primary election Democratic primary for South Carolina State Senate District 19 Incumbent Tameika Isaac Devine defeated Michael Addison in the Democratic primary for South Carolina State Senate District 19 on June 11, 2024.”

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Source-backedHigh confidencesource adapter

Chris Nelums's Ballotpedia questionnaire answer indicates a stated position on Election integrity: Democratic primary election Democratic primary for South Carolina State Senate District 19 Incumbent Tameika Isaac Devine defeated Michael Addison in the Democratic primary for South Carolina State Senate District 19 on June 11, 2024.

Issue: Election integrity

Government transparencyInstitutional accountability

“Democratic primary election Democratic primary for South Carolina State Senate District 19 Incumbent Tameika Isaac Devine defeated Michael Addison in the Democratic primary for South Carolina State Senate District 19 on June 11, 2024.”

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Source-backedHigh confidencemanual entry

Chris Nelums appears in the official SCVotes candidate listing for Commissioner of Agriculture — South Carolina.

Issue: Ballot access

Government transparency

“SCVotes candidate listing includes active candidate filings by office, associated counties, party, filing location, and candidate status.”

Candidate Listing — 11/3/2026 Statewide General ElectionSouth Carolina Election Commission / SCVotes VREMS • Official state candidate filing and candidate status listing • fetched 2026-06-10

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