Early voting in the primary election is well underway, and vote-by-mail ballots are arriving at supervisors of elections’ offices.
But where are the NPA voters (with no party affiliation)? As of Tuesday morning, Aug. 11, 1.8% of eligible NPAs had voted. Just because an NPA is not affiliated with a party, it doesn’t mean they can’t vote in the Aug. 18 election.
Monica Elliott is a long-time member of the League of Women Voters of Broward County.
In Broward County, NPAs can vote in countywide, nonpartisan judicial races, the District 8 School Board seat, and four School Board races (in Districts 1, 4, 6 and 7) are open to NPAs who live in those districts.
NPA voters living in southeast Broward can vote in the County Commission
District 6 race.
This race is a universal primary because all the candidates are Democrats with no other party candidates and no write-in candidate is on the November ballot.
This means every eligible voter in District 6 can vote. The same is true for NPAs who live in state House District 98. It is also a universal primary.
Trying to figure out whom to vote for can be difficult. Check out the League of Women Voters’ nonpartisan platform, at vote411.org, where we ask questions of all candidates.
The League also held candidate forums in races for the Broward judiciary, School Board, state House and County Commission District 6. You can view them all on our YouTube channel.
— Monica Elliott, Southwest Ranches
The writer is Voter Services Chair of the League of Women Voters of Broward County.
This snapshot in time shows that through Tuesday, Aug. 11, 67,512 voters in Broward had cast ballots by mail or at an early voting site. That was the fifth-highest among counties, even though Broward ranks No. 2 in population.
A cynical trick on vaccines
The president’s recent pronouncement on changes to children’s vaccination schedules is little more than a cynical political trick to persuade MAHA voters (Make America Healthy Again) to turn out for his agenda in the midterm elections.
These spurious claims about childhood vaccines will only increase vaccine hesitation with harmful results. President Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. don’t care about collateral damage to children who will get sick or even die from preventable infectious diseases.
I worry even more now about the threats to my grandchildren’s health.
— Merri Rosenberg, Boca Raton
Netanyahu must go
That was a great editorial (“With Netanyahu, enough is enough,” Aug. 6).
It has been nearly three years since the horror of 10/7, and still, Netanyahu answers to no one.
Israel has an election in October. I’m willing to excuse the IDF for its treatment of Palestinians because it is rather difficult to refuse orders from the prime minister. I’m also willing to excuse Israeli voters (just look at our voters and our president).
But they don’t get a pass any longer. Israel cannot continue with Bibi, Smotrich and Ben-Gvir, the other two extremists in the Knesset. They have used war with Hamas as an excuse for collateral damage as to why 70,000 Palestinian adults and children have been killed. Let’s get these three people out of the Knesset. They are destroying Israel.
If that means putting maximum pressure on AIPAC, fine.
— Richard Schuster, Fort Lauderdale
A scene from a recent grass-roots protest in Wilton Manors (Trisha Wiggins Bordenkircher/Courtesy)
A call for self-reflection
A note to the dozens of ever-so-tolerant, open-minded and rational “protesters” in Wilton Manors on one recent morning: I wonder if you recognize the irony of your protests against fascism and hate.
How can you be comfortable cloaking yourselves in the traits of tolerance and open-mindedness, and against fascism and hate, if you do not allow someone who disagrees with you politically to at least engage in a discussion?
You, and those who share your values, might take a long look in the mirror and engage in a little self-reflection and soul-searching.
You’ll feel a lot better after you’ve shed all that fascist intolerance.
— Kent Kensill, Fort Lauderdale
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