If this is more or less the main argument of the Pope Siri advocates (an issue I have never studied because of its absurdity on the surface), then I begin to understand why they are so opposed to the idea (shared by the near-unanimous consent of the approved theologians) that the universal and peaceful consent of bishops infallibly ratifies and validates the pontificate of the elected (healing in the root any vice or defect of said election).
Well, the Siri situation is quite complex, so you can't apply the "universal and peaceful consent" doctrine as if it were a normal papal election. Here's how it probably played out (based on the evidence we have of the white smoke and the rumors of a chosen papal name of Gregory). If I knew the exact papal procedures/process you could probably re-enact the "crime" of threats/duress, but I don't know this much detail. I'm sure it's in a book somewhere, as the papal process isn't a secret but only the voting is. Anyway, here's how it could've gone done in real life.
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1. Siri get the required votes and is elected. This election happens in the main, large room of the Sistine Chapel, let's not forget.
2. The "smoke" people are alerted and they start the smoke in the chimney.
a. The "smoke" people aren't in the Sistine Chapel, since that area is for Cardinals only.
b. They are in another part of the building and are notified by whoever cleric is the "master of ceremonies".
3. Siri choses the name of Gregory and is ushered off to a side room, so he can vest and get prepared to go outside to the balcony to greet the people.
4. As soon as Siri is out of the Sistine Chapel,
away from the other Cardinals, he is threatened (or the Church is threatened) and he resigns under duress.
5. Siri returns to the Sistine Chapel and announces his resignation to all the Cardinals.
6. Immediately, the "smokers" are told to stop the white smoke.
7. After the chaos and surprise die down between the Cardinals, they start a new election. None of them would know about the threats/duress that Siri was under, since they weren't in the side room with him.
a. Siri and all Cardinals are under vow of secrecy, so he wouldn't tell anyone, though later in life he made references to mistakes he made that he has begged God for forgiveness.
8. When John XXIII is elected, all the Cardinals would think that his election is valid, not knowing that Siri's resignation was legally null and void.
9. All of this could've happened
in a manner of minutes, which would coincide with the newspaper accounts of the white smoke being only visible for a short time.
10. It would've happened quickly because those Modernists/communists who were inside new-rome at the time, would've had this plan in place, as an "emergency measure" if an orthodox cardinal was elected, since he wouldn't go along with V2, which was the ultimate goal, and required getting someone like John XXIII elected.
But the theory of the “oblivious pope” (ie., Siri was pope, but didn’t know it) is certainly the wildest sede invention thus far, and makes the legitimacy of Pope Michael seem more reasonable in comparison.
Siri wouldn't be oblivious, nor would be (properly speaking) be the pope. The Cardinals (all except for the evil ones who were in on the threats) would be (or could be) oblivious. Siri would be the pope-elect only, since he never went through the coronation/mass process. He would be legally/materially the pope, but maybe not have full spiritual authority (I'm guessing). John XXIII would be an anti-pope (just like the previous John XXIII in prior church history...a coincidence that is too eerie to be a coincidence.) John XXIII wouldn't have the spiritual authority, only the temporal/material office (even if by force and trickery). In essence, the spiritual seat would be vacant.