I wonder if we will ever get back to paper ballots and election day voting.

The only thing that will assure free and fair elections is going back to dumb voting machines and conducting open, by the book audits after every election.
Probably not.
Because if we did make efforts to do that , the liberals would squeal that some people are disabled, or for various reasons cannot vote on election day.
The liberals would imply that there’s no way to make provisions for such people. As far as I can remember, their always been provisions for people getting absentee ballots.
But to make any changes, then you have charges that we’re going back to Jim Crow. Remember the allegedly racist Georgia voter law, which Joe Biden called Jim Eagle, not just Jim Crow . HE never explained what JIM EAGLE was but apparently was worse than Jim Crow.
One of the ironies of the Georgia law, was that voter turnout increased. In spite of allegedly making it too difficult, voter turnout went up.
Sooner or later and one way or another. These “Vote Manufacturing Machines” must be done away with.