Winchester Election Guide

With the annual Town Election coming up, here's an overview with voting information you may need to know before entering the voting booth:

What: Annual Town Election in Winchester

When: Tuesday, March 26

Voting hours: 7 a.m.-8 p.m.

Voting Locations:

• Precinct 1 and Precinct 2 vote at Muraco School, Bates Road
• Precinct 3 and Precinct 4 vote at McCall Middle School, Main Street
• Precinct 5 and Precinct 6 vote at the Jenks Center, Skillings Road
• Precinct 7 and Precinct 8 vote at Lynch School, Brantwood and Horn Pond Brook Roads
• A PDF map of the precincts is attached.
• Don't know your precinct? Use this poll locator to find it.

Deadline to apply for absentee ballot: Monday, March 25 at noon

What you need:

You have to provide identification at the polls if your driver’s license number or the last four digits of your social security number on the voter registration form cannot be verified, and you did not provide identification at the time of your registration.

Here are the forms of IDs that are acceptable when voting:

1. Current and valid photo identification,
2. Government check or official document showing name and address,
3. Current utility bill showing name and address, or
4. Paycheck or stub showing name and address.

Additional Information:

Voters can try out this virtual demonstration of the touch screen voting machines before heading to the polls.

If you notice any voting irregularities, contact Winchester Patch Editor Mark Ouellette at winchester@patch.com.

For more information, contact the Winchester Town Clerk at 781-721-7130 or visit the website.

Candidates

Contested Races

School Committee (Two seats for three years):                                   

• Christian D. Nixon
• Brian A. Vernaglia
• Susan Verdicchio  
• Michael P. Galvin    

Non-Contested Races                                            

Moderator (One position for one year):

• John J. Sullivan  

Selectmen (Two seats for three years): 

• Lance R.Grenzeback                                                 
• James A. Johnson, III                                                                         

Assessor (One seat for three years):

• David P. Errico                                                  

Board of Health (One seat for three years):                                  

• David W. Heinhold

Planning Board (One seat for three years):                                  

• Drew Bottaro            

Planning Board (One seat for one year):

• Jerome Garciano                                               

Trustees of the Board of Library Trustees (Two seats for three years):  

• Jon French
• Elizabeth D. Cooper

Housing Authority (One seat for five years):                                  

• Stephen J. Anderson

Housing Authority (One seat for three years):                                    

• Brenda O. Kleschinsky

Town Meeting Members

The town of Winchester has eight precincts with eight positions up for election each year, reads the town website. Each term is a three-year term except where a vacancy exists, according to the site.

Precinct 1:
1. Shelley Ayervais
2. Denis Collet 
3. John Orrall 
4. John Quealy 
5. Rachel Roll 
6. Nathan Rome 
7. Shephali Sardinha 
8. William Thorpe 
9. Bryn Buck 

Precinct 2:
1. Dexter Cronin 
2. Catherine Curtis 
3. Jeffrey Dean  
4. Edward Levesque
5. Julie O'Connor 
6. Jill Shay
7. Patricia Toro 
8. David Ulwick 
9. Thomas Cafarella 

Precinct 3:
1. Janet Boswell 
2. Drew Bottaro 
3. C. David Carlson 
4. John Clemson 
5. Bennet Heart 
6. John Kilborn 
7. Richard MacNeille 
8. Mary McKenna-Sullivan 
9. Alexander Dimatteo, III 

Precinct 4:
1. James Ferguson 
2. Jeffrey Hannon 
3. William Andrew Lang 
4. Roger Marian 
5. Michelle Prior 
6. Peter Scapicchio
7. Robin Wolf 
8. James Woodard 
9. Aimee Murdock Burke 

Precinct 5:
1. Mark Andersen 
2. Elizabeth Brodbine-Ghoniem 
3. Michael Litchfield 
4. William Miller 
5. Virginia Rueter 
6. Stanley Wyrwicz 
7. Vacancy available for write-in 
8. Vacancy available for write-in 

Precinct 6:
1. Joseph Abate 
2. Nils Gjesteby 
3. Francis Jackson 
4. Jack Lemenager 
5. Francis MacDonald 
6. Karen Maruyama 
7. Karren Silver Nys 
8. Donato Berardi 

Precinct 7:
1. R. Michael Cassidy 
2. Sara Fascetti 107 
3. Karl Fryzel 
4. Mary Ellen Rourke-Falvey 
5. Vanessa Linsey Gobes 
6. Michael Walsh 
7. Vacancy available for write-in 
8. Vacancy available for write-in 

Precinct 8:
1. Benjamin Black
2. Nicholas Bogovich
3. John Giubilo 
4. Diab Jerius 
5. Roger Michelson 
6. Daniel Wentworth 
7. Michael Fiorenza 
8. Vacancy available for write-in 

Precinct 8: Two-Year Vacancy
1. Vacancy available for write-in 

[Editor's note: Lindsey Davidson contributed to this report.]