Voter Fraud Report

Treqwon Covington was charged by the state in Hoke County with one felony count of voting fraud after voting in the 2016 election. Covington was serving probation for a felony conviction, making him ineligible to vote in North Carolina. Covington entered an Alford plea (which is treated as a guilty plea) to one misdemeanor count of obstructing justice in exchange for dismissal of the voting charge. He was sentenced to 45 days in prison (which was suspended pending successful completion of one year of unsupervised probation), and assessed a fine, costs, and attorney fees totaling $712.50.