Joe Pickering

Joe is the president of Mainers for Open Elections.

Open Primaries

Partisan Elections Are America’s Greatest Hypocrisy – Maine Can Lead the Way Out

Kyle Bailey, a former Maine state legislator and Maine’s leading major election reformer, had an excellent op-ed in the Portland Press Herald in 2025. In that piece of commentary, “How we do elections matters,” Bailey celebrates the value of ranked choice voting to Maine and urges its expansion to s

Testimony: Maine Voters Deserve Open Elections, More Choice

I'm Joe Pickering Jr, representing Mainers for Open Elections, a new corporation. We support LD 78. Maine Voters should vote in any election without the label "unaffiliated voter." We the people should own our election system. Political parties have the right of Free Association but NO