While browsing reddit the other day, I found a post by Robert Bristow-Johnson (thanks, Robert) linking to a bill proposed by Chad Mayes for implementing Condorcet//IRV for Californian recall elections: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2161 He calls it "consensus ranked choice voting", and the CW the "consensus candidate". It doesn't seem like the language itself would need much of a change to turn the method into Benham instead; something like changing 24104 (3) to "Once a candidate is defeated, or under batch elimination more than one candidate is defeated, a new round starts again pursuant to section 24103."; and then the words "candidate" in 24103 would have to be changed to "continuing candidate", and similarly "continuing consensus candidate" would have to be defined. It would perhaps be a bit unwieldy to count, and just having the right language doesn't make all obstacles to adopting a method vanish. But it shows that it's possible to come up with reasonable legal language for Condorcet//IRV and (most likely) Benham. -km