Tondaf, this is chosen for the Pope

Tiziana Campi – Vatican Cydad

“I chose to the supreme priest.”

The 133 voters will receive the choice of Roman ink 267 in their hands rectangular card with this written in the upper half and “The appropriate place to write the name of the Mukhtar” in the lower half and “make so that it can be folded in two parts”. Everything is precisely described in the Universi Dominici Gregis Constitution.

Distribution of polling cards

Once the polling cards are prepared and distributed (at least two or three for each Cardinal) by the master of celebrations, the last deacon deacon deacon, among all the Cardinals and three corridors, and three officials of collecting patients (Indermarii) and three auditors. If the names of the Cardinals are extracted in this due to the disease or other causes, they will not be able to perform these functions, other Cardinals are extracted instead. This is the stage before voting. Before the voters start writing, the Secretary of the College of Cardinal, the master of the papal liturgical celebrations, must leave the Sistin Church, then close the last deacon Cardinal, open it and close it several times as necessary, as they concluded them, and go out to collect the voices of the sick and return to the cats.

Voting

All Cardinal, according to the arrangement of the precedence, after he wrote and folded the polls, keeps it high to be visible, takes it to the altar, where the fluctuation is located and a bowl covered with a dish to collect the ballot cards. ”

“I bear witness, O Lord, who will judge me, that my vote is given to the person who, according to God, I think it must be chosen.”

This is the formula that all cardinal will say below. After the polling deposit on the plate and with it in the bowl. In the end, he tends in front of the altar and returns to his seat. Cardinals in the Sistin Church, which cannot go to the altar because they are sick, have the help of the last nurses who approach them: announce the right, and connect the folded ball to the folder that takes it clearly to the altar, and without pronouncing the right, puts it on the plate and with it in the direction.

Sistin Church, where the Pope is chosen

How to vote for sick Cardinate

If there is a sick currency in their rooms, the Three Infeteriii goes there with a suitable number of sounds in a small tray and a box that is delivered by the saboteurs and open publicly, so that other voters can see that he is empty, then closes a key and put it on the altar. This square contains a hole in the top where you can enter a bent polling. After that, the jar nurses take to the Sistine Church, which was opened by the fluctuations after the Cardinals were present.

The volatile informs the polling cards in the jars, and after making sure that their number coincides with Infirariii, they put them one by one on the plate and with them all are offered together in the bowl.

In the ballot box

Once all Cardinal voters deposit their voices in the jars, the first Scrutinner shakes the tractor several times to mix their voices, and immediately after that, the last Scrutinner extends to the number of the voting cards clearly to one by one of the jar and deposited it in another other empty container. If the number of voting cards does not correspond to the number of voters, they must all burn and immediately follow up to a second vote. On the contrary, it coincides with the number of voters. On a private paper- and write the reading.

If, during the count, the fluctuations found two folds, so that they seem to be filled by the same voter, if they carried the same name, they will be calculated as one voice; On the contrary, they carry two different names, none of the two origins will be valid, but in any of the cases, the vote will not be canceled. Once the voting number is completed, the fluctuations add up to the votes obtained by the various names and write them on a separate paper. The last folder, when reading the ballot cards, click them with a needle when the word Iligo is present, and they are presented in a topic, so that they are kept more safe. Once the names are finished reading, the names are finished, and the polling cards are deposited in a bowl or one side of the canteen. At that time, sounds are calculated, and after examining them, it burns in a blossom iron stove that was first used during the 1939 round. A second stove, 2005, connected, is used for chemicals that should give black in the event of not choosing and white in case of selection.

Stoves where polling cards and chemicals that color smoke are burned (ANSA)

The necessary legal quorum

At least 2/3 of the votes are needed to elect the Roman Pope. In the specified case of the group that will start on Wednesday, May 7, 89 votes will be necessary to choose the Pope, as the number of voters is 133.

Whether the Pope is chosen as if it was not, the auditors must move forward in checking both the votes and explanations made by the fluctuations, to ensure their exact mission and sincerity.

Immediately after the audit, before the Cardinal voters leave the Sistin Church, all voting cards are burned by the saboteurs, with the help of the college secretary and the celebration master, in the meantime the last Cardinal deacon. On the contrary, if the second vote should be celebrated immediately, the first polling cards of the layers are only in the end, with the second vote.

The installation of chimneys is connected to the stoves of the Sistin Church (ANSA)

Potecion

Voices take place every day, two in the morning and two in the afternoon, and if the Cardinal voters face it difficult to agree on the person to be chosen, after three days without result, the votes are suspended in a maximum of one day, for the sake of standing, and free discussion between voters and the short spiritual spirit, clear by Dean Cartinain of the Deacons. Voting. After seven votes, if the elections do not take place, there is another temporary stop for prayer, conversation and motivation, which is taught by the main cardinal of the distinguished.

After that, another chain of seven votes is implemented, and if the elections are not produced, a new temporary of prayer, conversation and motivation is stopped, by the main cardinal of the bishops. After that, the vote is resumed, with a maximum of seven votes. If there is no choice, one day save for prayer, thinking and dialogue, and in the following vote, you must choose between the two names who got more votes in the previous vote. Also in these votes, the vast majority of at least two -thirds of the Cardinals and voters are needed, but in these votes, the vote to vote cannot vote.