REDDING, Calif. - A former Redding landlord is in hot water today after recent Reddit posts he made were shared across the app.

Charles Pierce is a 70-year-old former landlord of the Manzanita Manor Apartments in Redding. Pierce says he was fired from his role after his reddit posts came to light.

Pierce told Action News Now that under a now-deleted account, he posted that he received mail-in ballots of four previous tenants at the Manzanita Manor Apartments.

In a post to Reddit, Pierce claimed that he used all of the four ballots to cast votes for former President Donald Trump, and to vote “no” on all rent control and school bond measures in Shasta County.

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Oh look, yet again the supporters screaming the loudest about biggest fraud are the ones committing it.

Every accusation an admission of guilt.

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Part of the reason to drum it up is because it gives permission to the base to do it themselves. ‘We have to commit fraud because the democrats are committing fraud!’

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the supporters screaming the loudest about biggest fraud are the ones committing it

Of course, MAGA Republicans are all about maximum projection since it works so well with the"poorly educated" morons.

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A landlord. Shocker.

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Property manager, maybe? You don’t get fired from being a landlord, you sell the property.

He says the situation has been “blown out of proportion” and is “so bogus.”

Is this what happened to Bill S. Preston, Esq.?

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“this is non-non, non-non-non, NON-heinous!”

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Property manager is doing an awful lot more than just selling/renting out property.

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Yeah, but in the end you’re just an employee, you shouldn’t really give a shit how much tenants pay, you’re equally getting exploited by the actual landlord. It’s just another case of someone thinking they’re in a different class compared to the one they’re actually in, and voting accordingly.

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And somehow didn’t even own the building if he could be fired? So wasn’t he really more of a building supervisor or something?

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Charles Pierce is a 70-year-old former landlord of the Manzanita Manor Apartments in Redding. Pierce says he was fired from his role after his reddit posts came to light.

I’m assuming he’s the property manager (you can’t fire a landlord). Some places give the property manager an apartment to live in, so he may have also lost his place to live. And at 70 years old, he’s not going to have an easy time finding another job.

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Hopefully he won’t have to worry about a place to live, as the felonies he committed will get him a cushy cell, complete with a roommate!

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Either that or he had a separate job, and was just a landlord on the side.

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It’s super cool how the cheating comes from “inside the house.” Fucking hypocrites.

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Mail in ballots require a valid signature to be counted and it has to match the voter registration.

But I suppose, if he had access to former resident lease paperwork, he could have forged the signatures, but now on top of voter fraud you’re entering identity theft territory.

What the elections team needs to determine is a full accounting of which ballots were sent to the apartments and then cross reference that with current residents, and who returned ballots.

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It’s kinda crazy to me that we still use signatures for official validation. I’m not saying I have a solution but it seems archaic

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It’s an interesting problem. How do you maintain the privacy of anonymous votes while ensuring the integrity of the larger process and all without making it too hard to vote that people don’t have access?

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I mean, that’s the way in person voting works too. You sign the voter registration check in and the signatures are compared.

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And I’m always sweating bullets, because my signature is never the same…

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Just like how you sign a credit card payment and those are always verified?

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Those always pass verification, but I always read that in addition to the security theater they are likely to be looked at when there is fraud to help establish the scope

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Oh, no, those are never verified!

I remember, years ago now, a comedian ran a bit about just how bad it had to get before a purchase was denied.

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I remembered exactly what you are talking about. This was the closest thing I could find at a glance. Zug seems to have been archived on the Internet Archive so it may have the actual post on there. I also got a good laugh out of the p-p-p-PowerBook saga from SomethingAwful around the same time.

https://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2009/08/put-your-shamu-on-the-bottom-line-and-join-the-revolution.html

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