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The Philippine Commission on Elections has banned Smartmatic Philippines Inc. from the nation’s elections, ending 13 years of the company being the main provider of election technology to the nation. The decision revolved around allegations of bribery that claim commission chairman Andres Bautista was paid off to ensure Smartmatic won the contract for the 2016 elections, according to the Philippine edition of CNN. Bautista has denied the allegations. Although Smartmatic argued it has followed the rules, noting that there are nothing but allegations against it, the commission was unmoved. “Although these allegations, stemming from incidents potentially spanning at least three...

Actors and left-wing activists Alyssa Milano and Dave Bautista took to social media on Sunday to push the effort to expel Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) after he objected to certifying the electoral college votes in at least one state on January 6, a move that left-wing activists say equates to “treason and conspiracy to incite” an “armed insurrection in Washington.” “This cause is close to my heart,” wrote Bautista in a tweet, sharing a petition that accuses the senator of “treason,” and inciting an “armed insurrection in Washington,” as well as “undermining rule of law,” a “coup attempt,” and “sedition.”...

In April, Marvel movie star, former WWE champion, and Smirnoff Seltzer pitchman Dave Bautista called Trump voters “brain dead” people. The smears continued this week, with him telling his 1.4 million Twitter followers that supporters of President Trump are just “small crowds of idiots.” The Guardians of the Galaxy Star slammed President Trump’s supporters, saying, “Only the small crowds of idiots willing to sit through your bad comedy routines are buying your shit anymore, Biff. Americans are voting by the millions. You’re exposed. You can’t lie your way out of it. There’s too many dead Americans. You’re fired.”

A woman who told police she preferred sex to surrender was arrested Thursday after she and a man she was with refused to come out of a mobile home on Jacksonville’s Westside... Thursday’s arrests came after a night-long standoff when at one point Hunn told police over the phone she would give up but wanted to have sex with Bautista “one last time,” according to the police report. She hung up but never came out. The report did not say how long police waited to break in to the mobile home to arrest Bautista and Hunn. Both were charged with...

The former girlfriend of a 20-year-old San Jose woman who died Monday after possibly being dragged by a car in Alviso was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of murder after being questioned by police for hours. Jennifer Bautista, 19, of Sunnyvale, was booked Wednesday night in connection with the death of Letty Martinez, 19, said Officer Jermaine Thomas, a police spokesman. Thomas said Tuesday that Bautista and Martinez had an "altercation, verbal or physical" Monday, before Martinez was either dragged by a moving car or as she tried to hold onto it. Martinez was left lying in the middle of Michigan...