Discourages people from voting because media projects a winner before they have a chance to vote.

• A. ballot fatigue
• B. time-zone fall out
• C. apathy
• D. political efficacy

Answer: (B)

The key idea is how turnout can be affected by when results are known. When the media projects a winner before polls have closed in all regions, some voters in later time zones may feel the outcome is already decided and decide not to vote. This specific effect, where timing and news of an early win influence whether people still cast their ballots, is called time-zone fall-out. It differs from apathy, which is a general lack of interest in voting; political efficacy, which is the belief that one’s vote can make a difference (this belief would typically encourage voting, not discourage it); and ballot fatigue, which relates to being tired from long or complex ballots rather than from timing of results. So the scenario best fits time-zone fall-out because it centers on how early projections affect turnout across different time zones.