A former Redding landlord is in hot water today after recent Reddit posts he made were shared across the app. The landlord says he was fired from his role after
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.
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!’
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.
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.
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?
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
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.
But, Pierce says he didn't actually do what he posted.
In a statement, he said he "did not engage in any illegal activities", adding that his posts were hyperbole, and that he was "too good" at inflaming and angering his audience.
He says the situation has been "blown out of proportion" and is "so bogus."
So bogus. Wait, is that the word of the...
Trolling as a defense for admitting a major crime. So bogus.
Nah, he's telling the news that he didn't actually do any of this, he was just trolling or whatever. And fair, nothing on the internet should be taken at face value, for exactly this kinda reason. They're gonna investigate and see if he actually did this or not.
Wait, how do you fire a landlord? Did someone else have some kind of contract with them that allows them to take ownership of the property? Or is this guy more something like a property manager and not the actual landlord owning the place?
The signatures on the mail-in votes wouldn't match what the state has on record (I doubt this 60 year old MAGAt is a master forger) and wouldn't be verified or recorded. Then elections officials might look at where these mail-in ballots were sent and MAGAt gets a visit from police for voter fraud anyway.
They have to know who they sent mail-in ballots to. Would be pretty simply to figure out that their mail-in ballots were used. Then when asked they'd just say "wtf you talking about? I didn't get a ballot in the mail." Then they'd track down where the ballot got sent. To the landlord at their previous address.