E-vote advocates still don't get it...

It's not an either-or proposition -- here in Australia we've done both (it's both compulsory -- though the fine is fairly minor -- and incredibly easy to vote).

Registration can be done online very easily, and there is no widespread voter suppression or purging (unlike in the US). There are no voter ID requirements (unless you're a silent elector -- a special status where you request that your address isn't put on the voter roll), and once you're registered you're registered for life. Voting is also compulsory for ex-convicts (and current convicts if the sentence is shorter than 3 years).

Voting itself is incredibly simple -- all our elections are on Saturdays, and there are early voting centers *everywhere* which open *3 weeks* before the date of the election. Voting takes a few minutes -- the longest I've had to wait in a queue was for 10 minutes. If you're out-of-state you can vote in another state fairly easily -- though there are longer lines (but you don't need to pre-register). If you're out of the country you can vote at a consulate or embassy. And finally, if none of those work for you it's possible to register for postal voting (though this does require you to register as a postal voter for a given election a few weeks earlier).

However, I would argue that the reason why voting is so easy in Australia is because everyone has to do it -- it would make no sense for any party in power to try to make it harder for certain people to vote (as is happening in the US) because fundamentally everyone has to vote anyway.