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Members of the Fauquier County Republican Committee and voters are suing their district GOP and the Republican Party of Virginia for tossing out election results from a countywide canvass in March.

The complaint, filed with the Fauquier County Circuit Court on Tuesday, alleges that party officials have disenfranchised more than 1,200 voters by voiding the results of all contested races for various party offices, including that of the chairman of the county GOP.

“We are asking the court to step in for American values and uphold our election and to reinstate the will of the people when they voted in March and let the legitimately elected candidates take office,” said James E. Rich, a former three-term chairman of the county GOP and one of the plaintiffs in the suit.

“In America, we just don’t overturn elections like we are in some kind of banana republic,” Rich said in a phone interview Thursday. “In my 20 years on the Republican committee, I have never seen anything like this.”

Republicans in Fauquier, a county firmly in GOP hands, held the canvass March 22. In the election for chairman, Scott T. Russell defeated Cameron L. Jones by 206 votes out of 1,206 cast, court records show.