News&Observer: Jefferson Griffin, the Republican candidate for North Carolina Supreme Court, requests a recount where he trails by 625 votes while also filing “a series of election protests on Tuesday challenging the validity of over 60,000 ballots cast across the state.”

His complaints, some of which have already been rejected by courts include:

• “[C]ounties improperly counted ballots from voters who voted early but died before Election Day.”
• Votes should be rejected from those “serving a felony sentence as of Election Day.”
• Votes should be rejected from individuals who failed to attach “a driver’s license number or Social Security number” to their voter registrations, even though state law does not require this.
• Votes from “military and overseas voters who have never resided in North Carolina” should be rejected despite laws that appear to permit this in certain circumstances.