Why I re-registered as a Democrat after spending my entire adult life as a Green.

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37. Actually, election reform has always been a passion of mine and one of

the major reasons I originally joined the Maine Green party. You might be surprised to know that a lot of them feel that way.

As to Dr. Stein, she seems nice enough and has some good ideas, but she doesn't click with me the way Bernie does. Add to that his longtime experience in government, and similar ideals and outsider status (from the two party system that I find so flawed,) he seems like the right candidate for me. In all honesty, had he run as an independent, I would have been in a quandary. On the one hand, I would have wanted to support my own party because there are certain (very frustrating) rules about how third parties can even qualify for existence in our system. On the other hand, I would have worried about accidentally allowing the Republican into office by not voting Dem, which I almost always do. (See why election reform means so much to me? Every election in which multiple candidates are running has been heart-rending for me. I know there are better systems out there, the problem is finding the political will to get something done when it is the very parties in power who would suffer most from the changes.)

I hope my answer was cautious enough to not get the big boot from DU!