I have not been able to find a complete list of the counties that were under federal review. Hillsborough and Monroe counties are named but not the other three. Various articles claim that Florida had 12 to 15 days of early voting previously and they were cut to 8 or ten days.
The settlement that was reached did NOT keep the days at 14 for the five counties. It just ensured that they would have the maximum hours available in which to vote on the 8 days under the new law.
Fla. defends early voting limits in federal court
September 19, 2012
Judge Timothy Corrigan, an appointee of President George W. Bush, held a three-hour hearing in a Jacksonville courtroom on whether he should block the 2011 law that cut the number of days from 14 to eight. The court battle comes just weeks before voting is scheduled to start in the key swing state and is one among a series of legal battles dealing with Florida voting procedures.
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The state has already filed information with the court that shows most of the state's bigger counties do plan to hit the maximum by holding 12 hours a day of early voting for eight days. Those counties have large concentrations of Democratic voters.
These include the three counties in South Florida, as well as Duval County in northeast Florida and most of the counties along the Interstate 4 corridor in Central Florida. Two counties that have large concentrations of student have also told the state they will hold 96 hours of early voting.
But 32 counties will not hold the full amount of hours available under the current law.
http://www2.tbo.com/news/politics/2012/sep/19/1/federal-court-weighs-florida-limit-on-days-for-ear-ar-506094/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tbo%2Fpolitics+%28TBO+%3E+Politics%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
A settlement was reached that kept the number of days at 8 but dictated that five counties would have 12 hours a day of voting:
Court Approves Schedule for Florida Early Voting
Published: September 13, 2012
In a motion filed on Wednesday before the United States District Court in Washington, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said the Justice Department did not oppose Florida’s new plan for those five counties, under one condition: The counties must offer 96 hours of voting between the hours of 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. over eight days, the maximum under the law. The Justice Department sued the state over its new early voting schedule, which would have reduced the number of days for early voting.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/us/politics/court-approves-early-voting-schedule-in-florida.html?_r=0
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