STACEY A. HAMILTON

STACEY A. HAMILTON

Name: Stacey Hamilton
Office Sought: Town Meeting Member Precinct 7
e-mail address: stacey.hamilton [at] lexingtontmma.orgmichaelschanbacherlexpb [at] gmail.com (
)phone number: 781-274-1202 (home) or 617-817-7759 (cell)

Community Activities: 

  • Work full time in compliance & ethics field
  • Two children in the Lexington Public Schools (Lexington High School)
  • Lexington United Soccer Club (LUSC) Board Member (2015-2024); President (2019-2021); volunteer soccer coach and division director (2013 - 2022)
  • Member of the Lexington High School Boys Soccer Boosters (2023)
  • Member of the League of Women Voters
  • Member of the Lexington Historical Society
  • Estabrook PTA volunteer (2013 - 2018)
  • Town election officer volunteer (2003 - 2015)
  • Town Meeting Member representing Precinct 3 (2012)
  • South Lexington Civic Association board member (2004-2012)
  • Bowman PTA board volunteer (2012)
  • LexFUN member and volunteer (2009-2014)
  • Town of Lexington 2020 Vision Committee member (2004-2009)

Article 43 on the 2024 Town Warrant is asking if the Town will authorize and request the Select Board to petition the General Court of the Commonwealth for Home Rule Legislation to allow any citizens in the Town of Lexington, who have reached the age of 16 or older, to register and vote in municipal elections within the Town, or to take any action in relative thereto. Would you support this article? Why or why not?

Yes, I am inclined to support this article for several reasons. Civic engagement is critically important to the health of our democracy. We should be encouraging it early, especially when teens have more access to information than prior generations and habits are influenced earlier in life. Local elections involve issues more familiar and accessible to students, where they can most clearly see the value of their one vote and the outcomes of the contest or issue. Engaging in local voting is the kind of experiential learning that prepares a high school student to be a lifelong voter on more complex state and federal issues. If we have students at this age working jobs but within a limited number of hours, and allowed to drive but during limited times of the day, then voting but limited to local elections is a natural expansion of what they are already doing - learning how to "adult" in their local community.