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"
I
call
as
my
witness
,
"
the
cardinal
declared
,
exactly
as
those
before
him
,
"
Christ
the
Lord
,
who
will
be
my
judge
that
my
vote
is
given
to
the
one
who
before
God
I
think
should
be
elected
.
"
The
cardinal
stood
up
.
He
held
his
ballot
high
over
his
head
for
everyone
to
see
.
Then
he
lowered
the
ballot
to
the
altar
,
where
a
plate
sat
atop
a
large
chalice
.
He
placed
the
ballot
on
the
plate
.
Next
he
picked
up
the
plate
and
used
it
to
drop
the
ballot
into
the
chalice
.
Use
of
the
plate
was
to
ensure
no
one
secretly
dropped
multiple
ballots
.
After
he
had
submitted
his
ballot
,
he
replaced
the
plate
over
the
chalice
,
bowed
to
the
cross
,
and
returned
to
his
seat
.
The
final
ballot
had
been
cast
.
Now
it
was
time
for
Mortati
to
go
to
work
.
Leaving
the
plate
on
top
of
the
chalice
,
Mortati
shook
the
ballots
to
mix
them
.
Then
he
removed
the
plate
and
extracted
a
ballot
at
random
.
He
unfolded
it
.
The
ballot
was
exactly
two
inches
wide
.
He
read
aloud
for
everyone
to
hear
.
"
Eligo
in
summum
pontificem
…
"
he
declared
,
reading
the
text
that
was
embossed
at
the
top
of
every
ballot
.
I
elect
as
Supreme
Pontiff
…
Then
he
announced
the
nominee
’
s
name
that
had
been
written
beneath
it
After
he
read
the
name
,
he
raised
a
threaded
needle
and
pierced
the
ballot
through
the
word
Eligo
,
carefully
sliding
the
ballot
onto
the
thread
.
Then
he
made
note
of
the
vote
in
a
logbook
.
Next
,
he
repeated
the
entire
procedure
.
He
chose
a
ballot
from
the
chalice
,
read
it
aloud
,
threaded
it
onto
the
line
,
and
made
note
in
his
log
.
Almost
immediately
,
Mortati
sensed
this
first
vote
would
be
failed
.
No
consensus
.
After
only
seven
ballots
,
already
seven
different
cardinals
had
been
named
.
As
was
normal
,
the
handwriting
on
each
ballot
was
disguised
by
block
printing
or
flamboyant
script
.
The
concealment
was
ironic
in
this
case
because
the
cardinals
were
obviously
submitting
votes
for
themselves
.
This
apparent
conceit
,
Mortati
knew
,
had
nothing
to
do
with
self
-
centered
ambition
.
It
was
a
holding
pattern
.
A
defensive
maneuver
.
A
stall
tactic
to
ensure
no
cardinal
received
enough
votes
to
win
…
and
another
vote
would
be
forced
.
The
cardinals
were
waiting
for
their
preferiti
…
