Our study longitudinally examines the adoption of blockchain voting systems in the U.S. elections to show how the local cybersecurity community stigmatized this emerging industry. Drawing on interviews, archival documents, media articles, social media posts and other secondary sources, we identify four distinctive phases that led to the stigmatization of blockchain voting in the U.S. elections: stigma conceptualization, stigma individuation, stigma attachment and stigma transfer. These findings contribute to a better understanding of the stigmatization process by 1) illustrating the role of individuation in the stigma emergence phase 2) adopting a relational perspective to explain how the combination of certain stigma characteristics, sources, and management strategies lead to stigma attachment and 3) showing how stigma transfers once the underlying logics of the emerging industry are undermined.