NC Vote totals...
2004 PRES 3,407,479
2004 GOV 3,385,067 ... 22,412 fewer votes cast in the Gov race than in the Presidential race...
2008 PRES 4,258,507
2008 GOV 4,222,965 ... 35,542 fewer votes
2012 PRES 4,499,039
2012 GOV 4,474,892 ... 24,147 fewer votes
2016 PRES 4,629,472
2016 GOV 4,658,566 ... 29,094 MORE votes cast for Governor than President... hmmmmmmm
If more votes were cast for governor than president in NC, that indeed would be a HUGE red flag. But we has to be careful when comparing total votes cast in the presidential and gubernatorial elections, because sources sometimes don’t present apples-to-apples numbers. If the total votes for governor in those sources include those counted past Nov. 8 and through recanvassing, but the presidential votes are from election night, it could explain the higher number of gubernatorial-election votes.
Remember how liberals claimed that Trump got over a million fewer votes nationwide than Romney had gotten? It was absolutely false, but since they were comparing Trump votes that had been counted by the morning of Nov. 9 with Romney votes that were counted for weeks after the 2012 election (including all of those California votes that are counted days later, absentee votes, provisional ballots ruled to count, etc.), it gave the false appearance that Romney had outpolled Trump. As of the latest count (or at least as of the latest numbers on Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections, the best website of its kind), Trump is now up by 1,700,500 votes over Romney.
So we need to be careful that both the presidential and gubernatorial numbers were updated simultaneously. I just looked up the presidential and gubernatorial votes cast as per Dave Leip’s site, and right now they have 4,741,517 votes cast in NC in the presidential race (with Trump up by 173,353, or 3.66%) and 4,710,970 cast in NC in the gubernatorial race (with Cooper up by 10,257 votes, or 0.22%). So that would be 30,547 more votes cast for president than for governor, which is consistent with recent elections.
So, unless the numbers on Dave Leip’s site are wrong (which I seriously doubt), the reported numbers do not reveal an obvious addition of ballots for the gubernatorial race. While I still think that the Durham shenanigans were illegal and that McCrory should fight tooth and nail to get those illegal votes thrown out, it does not appear as if county clerks or other officials made up additional votes for governor (unless they simultaneously made up votes for president).