No Teamsters Ballots Missing, Official Says

The federal official overseeing the Teamsters election denied allegations that she lost thousands of mail-in ballots in a process that unofficially reelected union President Ron Carey last month. After a monthlong investigation, Barbara Zack Quindel denied a protest filed by challenger James P. Hoffa, who pointed out a discrepancy between a postal estimate of ballots returned and the number of votes counted. Quindel’s office consulted with U.S. postal officials, who agreed they had overestimated the number of ballots returned and refunded $6,384. “There are no ballots missing, and . . . the claims of such missing ballots are without any foundation,” Quindel wrote.