(NEXSTAR) — Whether it's during early voting or on Election Day, millions of boxes or bubbles around the country are being filled in on ballots, putting forth a vote for desired candidates.

But, there is a fair chance you or a voter near you is not voting for someone on the ballot and are instead writing in a candidate. In some cases, a candidate whose name was not printed on the ballot may be written in while in other cases, a voter may write in a “protest vote,” like their own name or Mickey Mouse.

During the 2020 general election, various third-party or once-presidential hopefuls were frequently written in. According to reports from Florida, Kansas’ Riley County, New Jersey, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania’s Lancaster County, among the top write-in vote-getters were rapper Kanye West, then-American Solidarity Party candidate Brian Carroll, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), Green Party nominee Howie Hawkins, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former head of the National Institution on Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Other common options were Andrew Yang, the businessman who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination; Senator Mitt Romney........

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