I really don't understand the value of "write-in" votes. Help me understand if wrong, but the seeming irrelevance of the popular vote would suggest that it is a "winner takes all" agenda and the significant representation of alternate agenda is simply a "na na you lost" dismissal. That being the case a write-in is a sop for toleration of what you disagree with. "Let the other guys take the blame" is, to my mind one of "the deplorables".