Our friends on the left often claim that concerns about voter fraud are overstated, because if if a group — let’s say, to pick an example at random, ACORN — registers someone named Mickey Mouse, that Mickey Mouse isn’t going to show up on Election Day and vote.

Of course, if someone registers to vote under a nickname or a similar name, the example sounds less silly, and then there’s the matter of absentee ballots. And now, we see, there are groups attempting to commit voter fraud through absentee ballots:

A state Supreme Court justice invalidated 39 absentee ballots in question for the Working Families Party primary in Troy after a court hearing last month.
County Legislature Majority Leader Robert Mirch of Troy, working with private investigators, obtained affidavits from voters who said they did not cast the absentee ballots and that the ballots were fraudulent.
Trey Smith, a former assistant district attorney, has been named as a special prosecutor to investigate the allegations.
City Democrats and Republicans have fought over the Working Families Party line in various elections. Mirch, an enrolled Conservative Party member aligned with the GOP in the legislature, has long led Republican efforts in the city to secure the Working Families Party line by registering voters in the party. The Republicans have usually been able to keep the line from the Democratic candidates.
In the November election, eight of the nine Democratic City Council candidates will appear on the Working Families Party line.

Note those are absentee ballots that were cast and subsequently invalidated.