Accessus

Akzess is the name for a to 1904 possible form of the papal election.

The election of the pope was carried out by Akzess ( accessus ) when the conclave not the required two-thirds majority since 1179 came about when Scrutinium after several ballots. The voters voted in the election now by Akzess in the new round of voting only for candidates who had previously received votes. It could not voters choose those to whom he had given his voice. The new emerging voices figures have now been attributed to the voices of the first round of voting. This process is continued as long as continued until a new Pope was elected by a two -thirds majority.

After Pope Pius X had already banned the Exclusive in the Apostolic Constitution commissum nobis on January 20, 1904, he issued on Christmas Day 1904, the constitution Sede Apostolica Vacante a new papal election order, in which he explained the Akzess for abolished. Since this mode of election is no longer practiced.