5 a.m. and the stack was black..how many votes a day does the Cardinal College do?
Wouldn't you just hate to try and decide who looks best in the Pope suit?
The timeline for the remainder of Tuesday's events is:
At 4 p.m. (10 a.m. EDT), the cardinals will return to the Sistine Chapel for two rounds of afternoon balloting.
7 p.m. (1 p.m. EDT) is the approximate time of a smoke signal after afternoon voting.
The remaining days of the conclave are expected to follow Tuesday’s schedule. The Vatican spokesman said smoke signals from burned ballot papers could likely be seen at around noon or 7 p.m. local time each day.
No conclave in the past century has lasted more than five days, and the election that made John Paul II pope in October 1978 took eight ballots over three days.