This year in Onondaga County, more than 212,000 people came to the polls on election day.
Of them, 745 wrote-in a vote for president. It may not seem like a lot, but last year that number was just one.
"That's an incredible increase," said Board of Elections Commissioner Helen Kiggins Walsh.
A write-in vote takes significant research for the Board of Elections to accept.
"The president's a little different than writing in for any other office," said Kiggins Walsh. "It has to be a candidate that filed a slate of electors with usually the secretary of state with different state or in our case the board of elections. If you wrote in for someone other than those selected or registered write in candidates, your write-in's became a void or blank."
Those numbers also skyrocketed in 2016. This year, 4,424 presidential ballots became voided or were left blank. That number was 1,718 in 2012.
"A lot of people chose not to vote for any of the recognized candidates," said Kiggins Walsh.
But who did they vote for?
The Board of Elections does not track the voided ballots, but among accepted candidates, Utah's Evan McMullin led by a wide margin with 624 votes. Third-party nominees Darrell Castle and Michael Maturen had 51 and 33 votes respectively, and 14 other candidates had less than 10 votes.
"The only thing I can think of is there was a lot of displeasure with the two major party candidates, the two major candidates, and people wanted to do a protest vote," said Kiggins Walsh.
That is maybe best illustrated by the number 7.92, the percent of county voters who did not vote for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton.