WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Politicians and pundits in recent years have been preaching patience when it comes to getting election night results.

 

That usually means places like California, where vote-counting can be complicated or Michigan, where razor thin margins are anticipated.

 

Add Williamstown and Lanesborough to that list.

 

It is not a matter of pre-election polling suggesting particularly tight races; there is no such polling. Rather, it is a question of how voters will be making their selections in the race for the Mount Greylock Regional School District Committee.

 

None of the six candidates who qualified for four seats up for grabs on the panel appear on the ballots that have been mailed out, used in early voting or will be distributed at the polls on Nov. 3.

 

That means that all votes will be cast as write-ins, and that means it will take significantly longer for election workers to tally up votes in the local election once the polls close at 8 p.m. at Lanesborough Town Hall and Williamstown Elementary School.

 

As always, voters in both towns vote for all four seats on the ballot: two seats for Lanesborough residents and two for Williamstown residents in this year’s balloting.

 

To help voters decide, iBerkshires.com asked all six declared candidates a series of questions about issues the committee might face during the four-year terms they seek. Likewise, the Williamstown chapter of the League of Women Voters hosted a candidate forum, viewable on Willinet.

 

As a reminder, voters will be asked to enter both the names of the people they are voting for and the candidates' addresses, which are:

 

Lanesborough:

Curtis Elfenbein, 34 Summer St., Lanesborough, MA 01237

Jodi Szczepaniak-Locke, 21 Stormview Road, Lanesborough, MA 01237

Melissa Zuroff, 930 N. Main St., Lanesborough, MA 01237

 

Williamstown:

Laurel Bifano, 71 Cole Ave., Williamstown MA 01267

Carolyn Greene, 229 Bridges Road, Williamstown MA 01267

Steven Miller, 16 John St., Williamstown, MA 01267

 

Williamstown Town Clerk Nicole Beverly confirmed this month that voters are welcome to bring "cheat sheets" or their cell phone into the polling booth to help them remember the spelling of a candidate’s name and his or her address.