As election day nears, the News Service of Florida did a quick look at some of the contributions that are coming in to state races.

Here some highlights of what they found:

ADELSON ANTES UP ANOTHER $1M TO FIGHT POT PROPOSAL

Las Vegas casino magnate Sheldon Adelson contributed another $1 million in mid-October to a political committee fighting a proposed constitutional amendment that would legalize medical marijuana, newly filed finance reports show.

Adelson had contributed $5 million of the overall total of $5,842,897 raised by the "Drug Free Florida Committee" as of Sunday. The committee also spent $1,254,013 in mid-October and reported an overall spending total of $5,582,772. Almost all of the latest spending, $1.2 million, went to the New Jersey-based firm Jamestown Associates, LLC, for "media placement,'' the reports show.

Meanwhile, a political committee supporting the medical-marijuana proposal, which will appear on the Nov. 4 ballot as Amendment 2, raised $388,341 from Oct. 11 through Saturday, the reports show. Also, the committee, known as "People United for Medical Marijuana," received about $200,000 in in-kind contributions of television and radio advertising from The Morgan Firm, PA. That law firm is headed by John Morgan, who has spearheaded the medical-marijuana legalization effort.

The committee also spent $622,643 from Oct. 11 through Saturday, bringing its overall spending total to $6,584,779.

CRIST, SCOTT COMMITTEES COLLECT NEARLY $4.7M

Political committees supporting Republican Gov. Rick Scott and Democratic challenger Charlie Crist combined to bring in nearly $4.7 million from Oct. 18 through Saturday, newly filed reports show.

The week-long burst of fundraising increased the overall total raised by the committees to just shy of $74.7 million. The Scott-supporting "Let's Get to Work" committee totaled $45,217,027, while the committee "Charlie Crist for Florida" had raised $29,474,556. The Crist committee out-raised Let's Get to Work from Oct. 18 through Saturday, bringing in about $2.76 million.

Among its major contributors were the Orlando-based Morgan and Morgan law firm, the Florida Education Association and the Washington-based advocacy group America Votes, each of which contributed $250,000, according to the reports. In all, the Crist committee had spent $24,673,158 as of Saturday.

Let's Get to Work, meanwhile, raised slightly more than $1.9 million during the week, with $1.8 million of that total coming from the Republican Governors Association. In all, Let's Get to Work had spent $42,663,592.

CONSERVATION BACKERS SPEND $1.1M IN FINAL WEEKS

Trying to nail down voter support before the Nov. 4 elections, backers of a ballot proposal that would boost land conservation spent $1.11 million in mid-October, according to newly filed finance reports.

A political committee known as "Florida's Water and Land Legacy" has spent an overall total of $4.9 million as it seeks approval of a constitutional amendment that would require the state to set aside money for conserving land and protecting water sources.

The proposal, which will appear on the ballot as Amendment 1, has drawn little organized opposition. Of the $1.11 million spent recently, $1 million went to the Washington-based firm of Mundy Katowitz Media, Inc.

Also, the newly filed reports show the political committee raised $210,762 from Oct. 11 through Sunday, bringing its overall total to about $5.22 million. Its largest recent contribution, $150,000, came from The Nature Conservancy.