Edward Winn was a third-party candidate for President of the United States

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 in the 1984

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 and 1988 presidential elections

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, representing the Socialist Equality Party (US)

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. In 1984 his running mate varied from state to state, being either Helen Halyard

Helen Halyard

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 (e.g. in Pennsylvania

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)http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:pJRlCFVvxxAJ:www.dgs.state.pa.us/dgs/lib/dgs/pa_manual/section7/historical_election_statistics.pdf or Edward Bergonzi (e.g. in Ohio

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.http://serform2.sos.state.oh.us/sos//results/80/1984/presEle.htm In 1988 his running mate again varied, being either Helen Halyard

Helen Halyard

Helen Halyard was a third-party candidate for President of the United States in the 1992 presidential election, representing the Socialist Equality Party , also called the Workers League...

 or Barry Porster (e.g. in Iowa

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)http://www.johnson-county.com/auditor/returns/8811rtn.htm.

Winn had been a sixteen-year member of the party's Central Committee, and an executive board member of the Transport Workers Union Local 100 and played a leading role in the 1980 New York City transit strike

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