The phrase "affects the outcome" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing how a particular factor or action influences the result of a situation or event.
Example: "The team's preparation and strategy significantly affects the outcome of the game."
Alternatives: "influences the result" or "determines the outcome."
Life is a bizarre random series of events that greatly affects the outcome.
Dharma corresponds to how the deal is played, and skill affects the outcome.
It's a technical issue, but it's an important issue because it affects the outcome," he said.
Class background also affects the outcome of competition for secondary school places, even after allowing for inequalities at primary school.
How all of this affects the outcome of an election that won't take place for a year and a half is impossible to predict.
Speaker Perry B. Duryea Jr., a Montauk Republican, did not vote, in keeping with the tradition that the speaker votes only if it affects the outcome.
Moreover, the willingness of the government to evaluate programs, and modify them if necessary, affects the outcome.
She summarized these as: "proof of voter fraud that affects the outcome of the election"; "substantial noncompliance with statutory election procedures"; and "extenuating circumstances" beyond the control of election officials, like power outages.
McGurl's claim is simple: given that most of the fiction that Americans write and read is processed through the higher-education system, we ought to pay some attention to the way the system affects the outcome.
The new bill says that activity could be deemed to come within the terms of the act if it affects the outcome of an election even if that was not its purpose.
The fact that a photographer's bias or prejudice affects the outcome does not necessarily invalidate that outcome nor give rise to a fraudulent result.
