A challenge so hard it nearly caused Albert Einstein to blow out his brains

[Panda Express]

Try this one on for size


In 2000, a man lives in Florida and receives one ballot on voting day. He only votes for Gore on this ballot. However, when he submits his ballot, he ends up voting for both Bush and Gore. There was only one ballot submitted, there were no hanging chad errors, he only voted for president and there were no write-ins of any sort. How is this possible?

[Chunk Yogurt for President!]

He's an elector.  He votes for Gore on election day, but for Bush in the Electoral College?

[Panda Express]

Nope, way off

[SWE]

Magic

[Panda Express]

Magic

No, this isn't Lord of the Rings

His vote indicates an implicit agreement with the corrupt electoral college system, thereby constituting a "vote" for whoever is declared winner, in this case George W. Bush.

No, this isn't the sage garden

[Pessimistic Antineutrino]

Because Bush and Gore are one and the same, two sides of the same coin, muh corrupt two party system etc etc.

[Beet]

His wife voted for Bush on the same ballot.

[Flake]

I mean he could be an elector who voted Bush for President and Gore for Vice President.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

He is Jeb Bush. By voting he voted for himself, as opposed to by proxy. And on his ballot he voted for Gore.

[solarstorm]

There's only one correct answer...

[Panda Express]

Don't give up. You guys need to think laterally.

[Hatman 🍁]

defective voting machine

[Maxwell]

He committed voter fraud and should be put in jail.

[buritobr]

I want to know the answer

[The Other Castro]

The initial part where it says that the man votes for Gore means that someone named Gore is not voting and there is a man to go to the voting booth and do that for him. The next part is tricky, but I'll say that he then literally on the ballot votes for both Bush and Gore by marking both of them on the ballot.

Other than that, I can't think of another possible way.

[Vosem]

My first thought was that you were going to be asking us to come up with a unified field theory.

Anyway, I think Earl's answer is the right one.

[BaconBacon96]

He voted for Gore but because the election was stolen he voted for Bush according to the Secretary of State's Office.

[Intell]

Can we get the correct answer from the thread creator? 

[solarstorm]

Maybe the man is Jeb Bush?

[buritobr]

Vox Populi,

Where are you?

[Panda Express]

Oh man, some of you guys are so close. Here's another hint - you have to look inside the box by looking outside the box

[solarstorm]

Oh man, some of you guys are so close. Here's another hint - you have to look inside the box by looking outside the box

A four-dimensional box?

[solarstorm]

I'll come up with another proposal:

Vox Populi should send Ernest the answer via PM.
If Ernest approves of the answer, he shall approve this thread.
If he, however, considers it a riddle or a troll question, this thread shall be deleted.

[solarstorm]

Perhaps he's a judge of the Florida Supreme Court (or whatever you call that thing), which had the vote counting officially stopped.

[The Other Castro]

Expanding on my previous response, I think I have a solution:

A man has a friend named Gore that is unable to vote that day, so the man votes in place of his friend, or in other words he votes for his friend Gore. On the ballot, the man votes for George Bush for President. He voted for Gore to vote for Bush, so in this way he is voting for both Gore and Bush while only officially voting for one candidate for President.