One Denton County voter was apparently looking a little too hard for a transformative leader for governor this year: He or she wrote in Optimus Prime.
In Texas, such votes don’t count. When the secretary of state declared the election results final Monday, Republican Greg Abbott was affirmed the winner for governor, with more than 59 percent of the votes cast statewide. The only write-in votes that counted were the 604 cast for Sarah Pavitt of Austin, the only authorized write-in candidate.
