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b"Among the stories covered today: Maine's Republican Governor Paul LePage, the dumbest governor in the nation, was accidentally right (sort of) in his stated opposition to Ranked Choice Voting (RCV).\\xa0 On Tuesday, Maine was the first in the nation to use RCV in a statewide election, despite the fact that it's very difficult to count, virtually impossible for the public to oversee, and requires central tabulation and computers. LePage is somewhat right about his concerns, but for all the wrong reasons; we explain. (Please listen to the full show first before sending us hate mail, and note that we're willing to entertain a much simpler method of voting/counting called Approval Voting that solves many of the reasons folks support RCV, but requires no computers.) Speaking of this country's failure to reliably count 1+1+1:\\xa0 Nevada used its new 100% unverifiable touch-screen voting systems for the first time in its primary election on Tuesday, and it did not go well.\\xa0 Also today: Election results from Tuesday's primaries in Maine, Virginia, North Dakota, South Carolina and Nevada, as well as special elections in Wisconsin, where Gov. Scott Walker (R) had attempted to block two special elections for the state legislature from happening at all -- and one of those seats flipped to the Democrats for the first time in forty years. Virginia GOP voters nominated a far rightwing, Trump-endorsed defender of Confederate symbols. Retiring Republican Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee (correctly) says that his party has become a Trump "cult". Canada's House of Commons unanimously (but politely) rebukes Trump's attacks on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, even as Trump's DHS hardened border policy with Canada. And a ballot initiative seeking to break up California into three states appears to have qualified for this November's ballot..."