Because Republicans Know that Counting the Votes is Communist

So the Coleman campaign has filed suit to stop it

Republican Sen. Norm Coleman's campaign today asked the Minnesota Supreme Court to issue an emergency order banning county election officials from opening any rejected absentee ballots. The court has scheduled a hearing on the issue for Wednesday. The Franken campaign accuses the Coleman side of trying to keep wrongly rejected ballots from being included in the recount.

As an aside here, in addition to hitting on right and wrong, the Franken campaign should be saying flat out that Coleman knows that a real count would show him losing, because it's both the truth and good PR.