I followed the suggestion by SteamTrain, or a slight variation of the suggestion. The suggestion was to reduce one of the reported W-2 amounts by $1, which I did. But I also increased the other other W-2 by $1 so that the net amount reported to the IRS is did not change. The federal tax then went through without rejection, and within the next 24 hours the state return was also accepted (the state had originally been rejected due to the original federal rejection).
