  We reexamine democratic open string field theories, namely, theories in which
string fields are not constrained to a single picture number and picture
changing is obtained as a gauge transformation. We describe several
possibilities for regular free theories and attempt to construct the lowest
order interaction term and identify the lowest order gauge transformation for
some of these theories. We also discuss projections over string field spaces
that might be needed for a consistent off-shell implementation of picture
changing.
