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The Democratic candidates for House of Delegates in District 32, according to two of their Republican rivals, are government bureaucrats, incapable of representing their constituents because they must abstain from voting on certain issues.But, the Democrats counter, those Republicans, Gerald P. Starr, 53, and James E. Rzepkowski, 23, could find themselves in the same fix. Mr. Starr is a real estate agent and Mr. Rzepkowski is an office manager for an insurance company. They would have to abstain from votes on issues affecting their industries.

Two lawsuits have been filed in city Circuit Court seeking to void the results of the House and Senate elections in the 40th Legislative District, which encompasses a large portion of West Baltimore.Contractor Robert Clay, an unsuccessful candidate for the House, accuses the incumbents in his race of promoting numerous acts of election fraud, including urging election judges to pull the lever for them.Mr. Clay's attorney, David B. Shapiro, said the main allegation is that Dels. Howard P. Rawlings, Salima Siler Marriott and Tony E. Fulton were responsible for campaign literature circulated throughout the district that called Mr. Clay a "deadbeat dad, a carpetbagger and an indicted murderer."

Dwight D. Eisenhower was president when the last Republican campaigned for sheriff in Harford County.Rita A. Dather, administrator for the county Board of Supervisors of Elections, confirmed that implausible fact last week, but Sheriff Robert E. Comes, the Democratic incumbent, said he hasn't thought of it as giving him an edge in his bid for re-election Nov. 8."We're still out there working hard, knocking on doors in a few neighborhoods, mostly on Saturdays," he said.While Mr. Comes has remained low-key -- "I'm running on my record and my experience," he says -- Joseph P. Meadows, the Republican challenger, is literally limping through the county to deliver his message to the voters.

If Dario Broccolino were a betting man, he wouldn't have put money on himself to win the Democratic primary in the Howard County state's attorney race."

Two Republican candidates for the House of Delegates in District 31 are asking Carl G. "Dutch" Holland, the county councilman in that district, not to use their names in any of his campaign literature because they discovered his campaign is heavily financed by developers.Brian Brooks and James J. Riley, already politically estranged from Mr. Holland, said yesterday that they will send a certified letter this morning telling him they don't want to be connected with him in any way.Mr. Holland said that's just fine with him."

Nancy Schrum, a latecomer to the state Senate race in District 31, appears to have pulled her Republican opponent's ticket out from under him.Joseph "Jack" Feehley, former president of the Greater Pasadena Council and retired builder, heads a slate of State House candidates, called "Four for '94," that was registered with the state election office 1 1/2 years ago. District 31 includes Riviera Beach, Brooklyn Park and Pasadena.Although the GOP ticket remains intact on paper, and on more than a few campaign T-shirts, the names of its three House of Delegates candidates -- Brian Brooks, John McGagahan and James J. Riley -- now appear in campaign literature promoting Mrs. Schrum, a former Bodkin Elementary School PTA president.

Hannah Seamans was posted yesterday at the farthest reach of the Democrats' statewide get-out-the-vote effort, a high-tech enterprise the party sees as a model for the 1990s.With a list of committed Democratic voters in hand, the 57-year-old real estate agent from Pikesville watched over brisk voting inside Public School 226 on the corner of Violetville Lane and South Grantley Street in Southwest Baltimore.As voters in this enclave of Reagan-Bush Democrats checked in, she looked for their names on a roster prepared by the party's Coordinated Campaign, a $500,000 effort designed to locate supporters of Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton.

From: Michele BunkerGlen BurnieI am furious that Rep. Wayne Gilchrest has the nerve to be sending residents of Anne Arundel County his so-called "newsletter," which is nothing more than campaign literature paid for by the taxpayers.This is not your district, Wayne, and the new districts do not takeeffect for another year!I find it interesting, to say the least,that he chose to send his "newsletter" 60 days before the primary. If he wants to send us campaign literature, he ought to send it at hiscampaign's expense, not ours.

There's a Republican candidate conducting an aggressive campaign for City Council in Baltimore's 3rd District. But if you listen to her speak or read her campaign literature, you would never know it.As she goes door-to-door throughout Northeast Baltimore, Elaine Urbanski eagerly offers her ideas for improving education by enlisting the aid of local corporations. She stands firm against the tide of politicians who are calling for increased taxes, even though Baltimore is facing a severe cut in services because of a $26million loss in state aid.She even offers cute stories about her three children, her marriage to a former dance instructor and her first job selling hot dogs at Memorial Stadium.

Challenger Timothy A. Brown captured the presidency of a Baltimore-based national maritime officers union yesterday, ousting a 12-year incumbent in a rerun election ordered by the federal courts because of election fraud and ballot forgery in 1988.Mr. Brown, 48, of Tampa, Fla., was elected president of the International Organization of Masters, Mates and Pilots by a vote of 2,489 to 2,079 over Robert T. Lowen in balloting supervised by the U.S. Department of Labor.His running mate, James T. Hopkins Jr., defeated incumbent secretary-treasurer F. Elwood Kyser, 2,426 to 2,106.