Carey

NEW YORK (CNN) -- A court-appointed election monitor asked a judge Wednesday to delay the Teamsters' election until November, because of delays in congressional funding for supervision of the voting.

Ballots were to be mailed to the union's 1.4 million members on September 14, but overseer Mike Cherkasky asked U.S. District Judge David Edelstein in New York to approve a revised timetable. Under it, ballots would be mailed November 2, and election results announced by the end of the year.

Edelstein is expected to approve the plan.

The election is being held to replace disgraced Teamster president Ron Carey and to fill other offices.

Two years ago, Carey won a second term after defeating challenger James P. Hoffa by a narrow margin, only to see his victory nullified after an election officer discovered Carey associates had engaged in an illegal cash swap scheme. Carey was expelled from the union over the scandal.

The proposed election change follows the resolution of a summer-long stalemate over funding for election supervision.

Hoffa

Republicans in Congress, angered because the federal government spent $17.5 million on oversight in the 1996 race but failed to catch the campaign irregularities, had blocked funds for the required rerun.

In Wednesday's court application, Cherkasky said the $6 million offered in tandem by Congress ($4 million) and the union ($2 million) would be enough to oversee the balloting.

Government monitoring of Teamster affairs began after a 1989 agreement between the union and the Justice Department.

To help settle a racketeering lawsuit, the Teamsters agreed to allow the government to supervise its elections. The union paid for its first direct presidential election in 1991, and the government paid for the one in 1996.

There are five slates and six independent candidates vying for Teamsters offices.

Hoffa, a Detroit labor lawyer who is the son of the late Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa, is the best-known candidate seeking that office. Hoffa was cleared in April of any serious fund-raising wrongdoing in his 1996 campaign.