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Here comes Debbie Downer: From MLive.com:

The Wayne County Board of Canvassers deadlocked Tuesday evening in a 2-2 vote on certifying 867,409 votes cast in the Nov. 3 election, leaving results in the presidential race, as well as local races, unofficial.
Board members Monica Palmer and William Hartman, both Republicans, voted against certifying Wayne County’s results, saying they didn’t believe information recorded in Detroit poll books were accurate enough, referring to unbalanced precinct counts in which the number of votes tabulated did not match the number of voters signed in at the polls.
“If you don’t have an accurate list of voters to start with, how are you supposed to know what list to tabulate from?” Palmer asked. “We can’t have a tradition of having these unbalanced precincts.”
Several cities in Wayne County had unbalanced precincts, but Palmer suggested certifying all of Wayne County’s results outside the city of Detroit.
Unbalanced precincts cannot be recounted by law, and have historically been attributed to human error. For instance, a ballot may have been canceled without the change being properly noted by an election worker.
Most of the unbalanced Wayne County precincts reported to the board Tuesday were off by three or four votes. The largest discrepancy of unbalanced votes was in Livonia, where 27 more ballots were counted than what was on record in a precinct.
Board members Allen Wilson and Johnathan Kinloch, both Democrats, said their colleagues' decisions were politically motivated.
“(Imbalanced precincts) is a normal occurrence, this happens every election cycle and doesn’t prove there was deliberate misconduct during the election," Wilson said. “Our job is to be objective, and I believe that voting here is fair and represents the will of Wayne County.”
Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said after the vote that without certification from the county board, it would be up to the Board of State Canvassers to carry out the process of certifying Wayne County’s results.
The state board was set to meet Wednesday at 9 a.m. and again Monday, Nov. 23. The board has until Dec. 13 to certify statewide results.
It isn’t the first time out-of-balance precincts have raised concerns in Detroit, as Michigan election law doesn’t allow recounts of precincts where poll books don’t match the number of ballots cast. But the issue hasn’t stopped canvassers from certifying election results with similar issues in recent years.

If the count were off by several thousand or even tens of thousands, I'd be ecstatic. However, I highly doubt that the Board of State Canvassers will refuse to certify Wayne County over 30 or 40 votes out of 867,000.