The phrase "wants to affect" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
Example: She wants to affect change in her community by volunteering at the local soup kitchen.
He speaks to the audience because he wants to affect them in some way.
Still, the first half-dozen episodes suggest that the show very much wants to affect public opinion about public education.
He doesn't stop at getting inside the heads of his viewers; he wants to affect their bodies and toy with their nervous systems.
For example, if you're a writer who wants to affect the world and engage with a large audience, would you risk being marginalised in the US by talking about your atheism?
In the last interview I'm asking him about what he wants to do for the rest of his life and he says he wants to affect people's lives in a positive way.
"An attacker who wants to affect the national outcome could try targeting all of those races, find the states where the election systems are most weakly protected, and strike there," J. Alex Halderman, the director of the Center for Computer Security and Society at the University of Michigan, told me.
