"I Voted" stickers are everywhere at election time: on lapels, laptop covers, coffee cups and even the purses of famous pop stars .

These popular stickers trace their ubiquity to crowded Phoenix streets, a political dealmaker and a band of gung-ho staffers at a Realtors office.

It was 1985, and the civic temperature about traffic in the Valley was reaching a boiling point. "Build the damn freeways" became a rallying cry and helped lead to a countywide election to raise the sales tax by a half cent to build freeways.

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