0 present participle of blackball
1 to vote against allowing someone to be a member of an organization or group:
Therefore, it is unlikely that blackballing activities caused or heightened voter cynicism.
Rather, the blackballing was aimed at the public interest that seeks for more moral and/or ethical politicians by a third party.
Based on the above district level analysis, the blackballing campaign did not decrease voter turnout.
More specifically, blackballing reduced an average candidate's vote share by about 5%, and thereby may have changed election outcomes in many close races.
It turns out that the worry over the reduction of turnout due to such blackballing is unwarranted.
If anything, the blackballing increased voter turnout slightly.
Finally, in order to examine the effect of blackballing, controlling for other variables, we performed regression analyses in which the dependent variable is district turnout rate.
Two can play at blackballing, and they usually do, and sometimes more than two.
