I'm sure much worse was said in the time that the software was 'downed' to make absolutely surethe Republican board members bent the knee. Legal threats (as others have suggested the Michigan Secretary of State made last night), more explicit threats toward them and their families, or a combination of both.

It is Detroit after all, and if the Dem machine was already willing to openly dox and threaten the Republicans in public, I don't doubt for a minute that they'd be prepared to push the envelope much further when conveniently moved out of the public eye for a little while. I'm sure nobody, on either side, expected that Wayne County would even try to not certify their results, and that where Trump's people would have seen a bit of good news the Democrats would have had reason to go bugfuck insane considering what's in this county.