After all the sturm und drang of a recount, Watertown City Councilor Marilyn Devaney has reclaimed her hotly contested seat following a recount. Initially, tallies showed that challenger John Donohue barely beat her.

Then came the recount, which was a wild ride documented by the Watertown Wicked Local Blog and H2oTown. Devaney won that, and now the town's local scribes are waiting to find out if Donohue will challenge the initial challenge. Here's Jillian Fennimore on just how tight the race and recount were:

According to those results, Devaney has been deemed the victor with six votes over Donohue – 1,827 to 1,821 votes. In the original vote count on Nov. 6, Donohue beat Devaney by five votes.

H2oTown describes the absolute chaos of the affair, particularly the appearance of "new" votes:

However, the recount saw vote totals fluctuate dramatically, discovering over thirty "new" votes in a race where only X people voted.

But where did these "new" votes come from? Were they missed in the original election, passed through the new voting machines but never made it to the computer memory cards that are fed into the tabulator?

Whether or not Devaney reclaimed her seat, Bostonist was all ready for December 13, when Devaney will go to trial for allegedly assaulting a beauty-store clerk with a boxed curling iron. On one of Devaney's trips to court relating to the incident, she brought a priest with her. All drama, all the time.

We're loving this, but what about the people who must follow Devaney round-the-clock? Fennimore sighed on the Wicked Local Blog, "I need a vacation."

Who says local politics are boring?

Image of a curling iron from Amazon.