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A resident announced his candidacy for state representative. A law in the state requires new political entrants, regardless of party affiliation, to obtain five times the number of signatures as other candidates who have run for office previously. The resident, however, failed to obtain the necessary number of authenticating signatures to have his name placed on the ballot. On the substantive constitutional issue regarding the validity of the authenticating requirement, the most probable judicial resolution will be to

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law

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  1. dismiss the cause of action because the resident did not exhaust all available state remedies.
  2. dismiss the case as the resident did not meet the set requirements.
  3. uphold the authenticating requirement as it encourages serious candidature.
  4. hold the authenticating requirement unconstitutional as violative of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
  5. dismiss the cause of action because state election procedures are a sovereign state function.
  6. require the resident to challenge the authenticating requirement at a federal level.
  7. assign the burden of proving the validity of the authenticating requirement to thestate.
  8. hold the authenticating requirement constitutional as it maintains a fair political competition.
  9. hold the authenticating requirement unconstitutional as violative of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
  10. hold the authenticating requirement unconstitutional as a violation of the First Amendment.

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