New Delhi, July 17 -- US President Donald Trump on Thursday (local time) said the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified over 278,000 non-citizens registered to vote in US federal elections.

He made these remarks during his prime-time address and cited a DHS review of state voter rolls and public records, which identified these non-citizens as being registered to vote in federal elections. Trump noted, "These disclosures reveal an election system so broken and so vulnerable that no one can possibly defend it. It is not defensible."

The DHS document states, "Since Democrat states refused to share their voter files, the real number is actually much higher-yet even this limited analysis found more than a quarter of a million fore...