add Webster/Sainte-Laguë to counting methods #320
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Webster/Sainte-Laguë method is an alternative to the D'Hondt method. D'Hondt favors larger parties compared to the Webster/Sainte-Laguë method. Used in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iraq, Kosovo, Latvia, New Zealand, Norway and Sweden. In Germany it is used on the federal level for the Bundestag, and on the state level for the legislatures of Baden-Württemberg, Bremen, Hamburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, and Schleswig-Holstein.