ELECTION SPECIAL 2024: Recapping our endorsements and a look ahead

Media reports show more than 8 million Floridians cast early ballots this year. If you weren’t one of them — today is the day!

WHEN ARE THE POLLS OPEN?: From 7 a.m to 7 p.m.

WHERE DO I VOTE?: Check this voter precinct lookup from the Florida Division of Elections.

WHO HAS VOTEWATER ENDORSED: We have endorsed four candidates in general-election races this cycle: In the race for U.S. Senate, VoteWater endorses Debbie Mucarsel-Powell; in the race for the Congressional District 21 seat, VoteWater endorses Brian Mast; in the Miami-Dade County Commission District 7 race, VoteWater endorses Cindy Lerner; and in the Islamorada Village Council Seat 2 race, VoteWater endorses Steve Friedman.

WHAT ABOUT THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS ON THE BALLOT?: We take no official position on the six proposed amendments to Florida’s Constitution on this year’s ballot. However, we have significant misgivings about Amendment 2, which seeks to establish a state Constitutional Right to Hunt and Fish; those concerns are best articulated in this column by Blair Wickstrom, Florida Sportsman Senior Editor and President of the VoteWater Board of Directors, and in this piece by our friends at Friends of the Everglades.

BOTTOM LINE: In a year dominated by cultural issues, clean water was not a major campaign theme. But with red tide brewing off the west coast, and blue-green algae a yearly threat in Lake Okeechobee, Florida’s water quality problems  and the politics behind them  haven’t gone away. So if you haven’t already, please sign our VoteWater Pledge; and if you can, please support our work on the Dirty Money Project and other initiatives designed to boost clean water and political accountability. Together  we can turn Florida’s toxic tide.