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3:01 An Albany Common Councilor in his final year after more than two decades in office is proposing a radical change in city politics. Councilor Richard Conti, elected in 1997, says it’s time for the city to embrace non-partisan elections. Conti says the proposed local law could deter voter apathy in a city of nearly 100,000. He says three quarters of cities nationwide actually have nonpartisan elections. It s really, you know, meant to broaden the electorate, I would consider it a, you know, a progressive reform, that s meant to enfranchise more voters. Right now there s really a small portion of the electorate that actually determines, you know, who s elected to office, because we are so dominated as a one-party city in a way, that whoever wins that primary election, which can have a very small voter participation level, in effect wins the election in November de facto, just because it s not a competitive race. And so number of voters, people are really disenfran ....