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Because unless the are cardinals, they didn't vote for the current one. Only cardinals get to elect the pope.
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Because Catholicism isn't a democracy.
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It is due to the possibility of fraud. Who is to say who is catholic and who is not? I could enrol in a catholic church a month before the new pope election and effect the outcome of the vote. The current selection system has been working for about a thousand years. If it is not broke, do not fix it.
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Cardinals are the Super Delagates of the Catholic Church, so to speak.
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