Denver election workers still have roughly 32,000 ballots to count from Tuesday’s midterm election but supporters of Initiated Ordinance 307, the sidewalk tax measure, finally feel confident enough to declare victory in the tightest race in the city this cycle. The Denver Elections Division counted votes through the weekend to get through a logjam after spokesman Alton Dillard estimated that half of the roughly 281,000 ballots cast in Denver in the election came in on Monday and Tuesday. As of unofficial results released at 5 p.m.