In the November 2016 election, Onondaga County, New York, tallied all write-in votes, even though no law required election officials to prepare this tally. Here is a newspaper story about the tally. Onondaga County contains Syracuse and is one of New York’s most populous counties.
County election officials observed that more write-in votes are being cast in New York, ever since the state eliminated mechanical “lever” voting machines and switched to paper ballots.
And what is even just as nice is that this same newspaper usually prints a listing of all of the offices that were contested and the people who received write-in votes for that office in that last election. At least in their on-line version. While I may think this newspaper is mostly an ultra liberal, vigorously anti-Trump rag, they do manage to get some things right now and then. I’ll give them their due in this instance.