Or, as Herman and Chomsky would say, the best way to manufacture consent is to presume it. As a matter of mere fact, the truth or falsity of this claim can be determined, which makes presumption all the more unwarranted and all the more grotesque. Proponents of IV claim a cost savings over public voting. There's not a state or federal jurisdiction in the country that spends enough money on election administration to take this seriously. Polling places are run by volunteers, another bit of dwindling civic participation that should not be discarded lightly.
Proponents claim a speed advantage over the most widely-deployed voting technologies.
The putative trump claim is convenience. I am largely unmoved by marginal gains in convenience. Yes, there is some annoyance peripheral to voting itself, nearly all of it unaddressed by Internet voting. And, yes, more could be done to make it easier to register to vote, but neither Republicans or Democrats have any abiding interest in that . Convenience is a dead end and those who advance it should be embarrassed by its thinness.