KNTV NBC Nightly News March 10, 2013
Evening, following a mass that morning at st. Peters basilica. 77 is the number of votes a candidate needs to be elected pope. Two thirds plus one of the 115 electors. If no one succeeds on the first ballot, the cardinals will then vote twice in the morning and twice in the afternoon. If deadlocked by the end of friday, theyll take saturday off and resume voting sunday. All the while, cut off from the world. Electronic jamming in place around the Sistine Chapel and the house where theyll stay to keep the cardinals focused on the Spiritual Task at hand. Alberto maloney is a noted church histori...