Via the Seattle Times: Nation & World | Pope changes rules on papal elections

Pope Benedict XVI has changed the rules for electing popes, making it potentially harder to name a successor but ensuring that when the white smoke rises from the Sistine Chapel, the new pontiff will have broad support among cardinals.

Benedict issued a one-page document in Latin on Tuesday requiring that two-thirds of the cardinals in a conclave agree on the new pontiff. The move was a return to Vatican tradition and reversed Pope John Paul II’s 1996 decision to let an absolute majority decide on the next pope if they remained deadlocked after 33 rounds of balloting.

Well, maybe not so much reform as the reversal of previous reform.

I guess this means an even longer wait as we watch the Popestack when Benedict passes.