New York, March 28 -- US President Donald Trump has cited India's requirement for voters to link their Aadhaar card with their Election Photo Identification Card (EPIC) as an example of a nation ensuring the integrity of its election and contrasted it with the lax US voter identification system.

In an order requiring voters in federal elections to prove their citizenship, he compared the US and Indian practices, writing in the very first paragraph that India was "tying voter identification to a biometric database, while the United States largely relies on self-attestation for citizenship".

"Despite pioneering self-government, the United States now fails to enforce basic and necessary election protections employed by modern, developed na...