Q&A With Candidates Before Election Tuesday

Tuesday, voters in Watertown, Belmont and parts of Cambridge and Boston - including Back Bay - will select the Democratic candidate for the Second Suffolk and Middlesex state senate seat. There are no candidates from the Republican or any other parties.

Patch sent all the candidates the same set of questions to provide voters with some more insight into who they are, and why they are running.

Read the candidates responses:

• Belmont State Rep. Will Brownsberger
• Former state firefighters union president Bob McCarthy of Watertown

The polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. To see where you should go to vote, visit the Secretary of State's website. Back Bay voters in Ward 5, Precinct 9 will head to the Boston Public Library.