As stated by the GP, the "desire" for association is an auditing requirement and not really a personal request of the voter.

If you had access to the vote db such that you could take my unique identifier and associate it with my vote, would any kind of system be able to stop you from doing that? Your point has merit, but it is far from the current discussion.

It's quite simple really.

Voting machine shows UI requesting the user's (voter's) vote. User chooses candidate. Voting machine registers an additional vote for user's candidate into the votes table. This vote is assigned a unique identifier. This identifier is printed onto a paper receipt which is provided to the voter. This can be later used to confirm that user's vote for candidate A was indeed registered for candidate A.

Just how hard is that?

The GP was probably quoting the American version.

whoosh

You trust steam more than you trust your own kid?

India didn't win 8 oscars. A. R. Rahman won 2 oscars. Resul Pookutty won 1 oscar with Richard Pryke and Ian Tapp.

The other awards did not come to India.

It's OK to pull a gun on someone who is robbing your store only if local and state laws specifically say so.

Downloading and using software without a valid license is not covered by laws that allow the licensed distributor to do anything to other people's data.

Being other people's data, which the distributor or developer do not and cannot have any rights over, it is unlikely that any such law will be passed.