Agreed. If we're ever to achieve election integrity again it must begin at the local level. Since computerized voting machines are a conduit of election control and stealth they ought to be replaced. But with what? Given the willingness of too many election officials and workers to throw the race we need a way of casting our ballots that will cut corrupt officials out.
I lived in Australia from 1985 to 2010, and even though they have ranked choice voting, they still count all ballots by hand and the election results are known by 11pm. Really close elections were decided after 3 days max. You go in to vote and are given a paper and a pencil to put a check in the box of the candidates you choose. The ballot goes into a locked box that is located at the exit door and is guarded. Once the polls close, the box is opened and the counting begins at the polling station. Observers from every party watch as each ballot is counted.
Australia does allow postal voting, but you have to apply for it and state your reason for not being able to vote in person on the day. Voting is mandatory in Australia.
The three biggest threats to election integrity in America are (1) no-excuse mail-in ballots with no signature verification (2) ballots not being counted at the polling stations but instead are trucked to third-party locations with no chain-of-custody and (3) machine voting with no paper copy of the vote, and companies like Dominion being allowed to refuse and audit. Also, voting machines should not be able to be connected to the internet -- but they are. Dominion had on their website that if the machines were malfunctioning, a representative could be contacted in order to remotely take over the machine to see what the problem was. Dominion removed this from their website after it was reported in the weeks after the 2016 election.