No, they want elect. money so they can track and control your access to it, and how much!!!I suppose the government wants electronic currency to speed up what it wants to do with it. They could come up with "new dollars" now and have everybody exchange their old currency for newly printed stuff, but that would be time consuming. In revolutionary France the value of the assignat would fall by 5% just between the time of printing and issuance.
I wonder whose pictures would be on the new money?