Hoffa to Request Probe of Teamsters Voting

James Hoffa Jr., an unsuccessful candidate for president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, said he will ask today for a congressional probe of alleged voting irregularities in the union election. Incumbent President Ron Carey claimed victory Saturday with 52% of the vote in government-supervised ballot counting by the 1.4-million member labor union. Hoffa is challenging the results, charging that 25,000 ballots are missing and that 41,000 haven’t been counted. He said Carey’s margin of victory was 17,000 votes. Hoffa officials asked Atty. Gen. Janet Reno to impound the records and the ballots.