Just check’n in to tell you that I live in Eastern Suburbs of Pittsburgh (Penn Hills) which is 50/50 white/black. I took a half day today to go to the polls and vote. There was no line, and I was in/out in five minutes. Paper ballots too - always had machines in the past. Good thing? Bad thing? I don’t know.
I think Florida, where I live, and now apparently California have the best system. It’s a combination of both paper and computer. The voter fills out the paper ballot, then the ballot is scanned in the voter’s presence. In fact the voter is the one who feeds the ballot into the scanner while a poll worker observers. The paper ballots are saved, so there is a way to go back to the paper ballots if there are issues or questions about the computer system being compromised. Of course any system has its vulnerabilities. If you don’t have trustworthy people maintaining the custody of the saved ballots, it’s all for naught. But it seems like a reasonably safe system with a degree of redundancy.
If it were just an either or choice between paper ballots or electronics, I would probably pick paper ballots. So on the whole I think your situation is an improvement over all electronic. It has more vulnerabilities compared to what we have in Florida, but it’s probably safer than a totally electronic system, as long as transparency and poll watching is allowed.