In my precinct, the write-in showed up on the final screen. What happened after that, I don’t know.
Funny thing, my story is so dated that we looked at a later printed newspaper to see the exact local result totals to see if his dad’s write-in name appeared as one vote.
To young FReepers: A printed newspaper had paper pages with ink words. People used to wait to the next morning to get the first ones to see the latest news.
Note: I used to tell young student assistants at work about vinyl LPs. Then suddenly one year they nodded and said “Yeah, I know. I have some vinyl. Love it. So much warmer sound.”
This was at the peak of CD era and end of cassettes. A blip for vinyl sales then but billions a year bought now. You never know.