See GOP Lawmakers to Pay Dearly to Get Bush on Ballot in the Chicago Sun-Times. The article begins: “In a delicious political irony, House Republicans were forced to go to great lengths Thursday to ensure that President Bush’s name gets on the Illinois ballot next year — and Mayor Daley’s early-retirement package hung in the balance. The price the House GOP paid to benefit Bush meant voting to spare Democrat Secretary of State Jesse White steep election fines. Plus, they had to agree to Democratic demands to permit the same type of flawed paper ballots to be counted in Illinois that Republicans fought against in Florida to hand Bush the 2000 presidency.
But it turns out this report may have been premature. See here and here.