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Go a long way?

One good turn leads to another, as they say. It’s the domino effect. Reciprocity being human nature, one little favor in time of need achieves a lot later on.

That’s why a little kindness goes a long way.

Similarly, other good qualities in people, such as, for instance, compassion, drive, integrity, patience, perseverance, all go a long way, meaning eventually, in the long haul, these qualities will make a difference, a great difference.

All right, here are examples of people and things that, in one way or another, go a long way:

1. What would it cost to protect the nation’s voting systems from attack? About $400 million would go a long way, say cybersecurity experts. It’s not a lot of money when it comes to national defense — the Pentagon spent more than that last year on military bands alone — but getting funds for election systems is always a struggle.

At a Senate intelligence committee hearing last week about Russian hacking during last year’s election, Jeanette Manfra, the acting deputy undersecretary for cybersecurity at the Department Homeland Security recommended that election officials have a paper-based audit process to identify anomalies after an election.

While that’s the advice most cybersecurity experts give, right now more than a dozen states use electronic voting machines that have no paper backup. Replacing those machines would go a long way toward protecting one of the core functions of democracy, says Larry Norden of the Brennan Center for Justice in New York.