Today is Wednesday. Temperatures will be in the 70s throughout the state with rain that could be heavy at times. Here's what we're talking about in Maine today.

Election results not expected to be delayed in Maine despite virus changes

• There will likely be fewer Maine voters at the polls on Tuesday compared to a typical primary election as the coronavirus prompts a record sum of absentee ballots, but results are not expected to be delayed unless ranked-choice voting kicks in for high-profile races.

• Maine's pioneering, strict internet privacy law is not preempted by federal law, a judge ruled on Tuesday in a scathing rebuke to an argument from internet service providers. The case will continue in court, but Judge Lance Walker's move to throw that argument out is likely to destabilize efforts to overthrow a law that went into effect last week.

This fruit tastes like a cross between a blueberry and raspberry, and a Maine farm is turning it into syrup and beer

• A St. John Valley farming family who planted thousands of haskap berry plants five years ago were convinced that a wide open market for the fruit was an opportunity for northern Maine farmers. It turns out they were right.

• A secure, 39,000-square-foot building that the Navy uses to watch over shipbuilding at Bath Iron Works is going up for online auction with the same firm that sold the Bangor Mall and the former MBNA building in Belfast.

• A Kennebec County Jail officer pepper-sprayed a Black inmate and slammed him against a table without cause after another guard directed a racial slur at the inmate in 2019, according to a civil rights lawsuit that was filed in federal court on Monday that claims the main officer involved has a history of racist incidents. 

• A Dutch aquaculture firm that announced plans last fall to expand to North America with a $110 million fish farm in Jonesport, where it hopes to produce 13 million or more pounds of yellowtail each year, is moving ahead with plans to apply to the state for a discharge permit in early August.

In other Maine news...

• Maine joins states suing Department of Education over virus relief funds for schools
   
• 2 CMP-aligned groups spending nearly $17M to persuade voters to back corridor
   
• Strike compels layoffs at Bath Iron Works, company president says