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Athens News Matters: New Laws that will Affect your Voting Experience for 2022 Elections

WUGA | By Martin Matheny,

Sofi Gratas

Published April 19, 2022 at 6:28 AM EDT

Last year, Georgia lawmakers passed a sweeping and controversial set of changes to voting laws. Now, with elections just a few weeks away, we talk about how new laws affect your voting experience.

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Martin Matheny

Martin Matheny is WUGA's Program Director and a host and producer of our local news program 'Athens News Matters.' He started at WUGA in 2012 as a part-time classical music host and still hosts WUGA's longest-running local program 'Night Music' which is heard on WUGA and GPB Classical. He lives in Normaltown with his wife, Shaye and dog, Murphy.

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