Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick criticized the Democratic Party’s push for mail-in voting, calling it a “scam” meant to influence the next election.

“This is a scam by the Democrats to steal the election,” he told Fox News’s Ed Henry on Friday. “We know that during a voting cycle, that people move, some people die. We are going to have millions of ballots across this country going out to people who no longer live there or who have died, and it opens up the door for fraudulent voting, one at a time or many at a time.”