Write ins in my suburban NJ county. Interesting discovery

[MarkD]

Oh, no. Nationwide, McMullin had almost than twice as many write-in votes as Sanders. Many states did not even recognize Sanders as a write-in option (those states have laws or policies that they will only tally write-in votes for a candidate who had officially declared, with the top election official of the state, their intention to be a write-in candidate for President, which McMullin did in many states). Sanders had almost 112,000 write-in votes -- counted only in a few states which allowed all write-in votes to be tallied, even if the votes were for someone who was not an officially declared write-in candidate -- but McMullin had over 221,000 write-in votes, spread out across 23 states.

(Source: calculations derived from data from the Wikipedia page about Election 2016.)