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The US Department of Justice says most of Florida’s new election law is legal. But the four most controversial provisions will need further review. Today Florida’s Secretary of State announced that the Department of Justice had signed off on 76 of the provisions. Last month the state asked a federal court to decide the legality of the four remaining provisions, an attempt to take politics out of the decision. Governor Rick Scott says it was the right decision.

“We wanted to make sure that it was decided by the courts, because ultimately the courts are going to make the decision, so it’s the right approach on the issues we went in on,” said Scott.

Still in question are changes to early voting that shorten voting from two weeks to one, but keep the same number of hours… and tighter regulations on third party groups that host voter registration drives. A panel of three federal judges will rule on those provisions before Florida’s presidential primary.