Monday Poll results: Your views on Hillary Clinton’s use of private email

At a news conference Tuesday at the United Nations in New York, Hillary Clinton defended the legality of her use of a private e-mail account and server while she was secretary of state. Victor J. Blue Bloomberg

We asked for your thoughts on Hillary Clinton’s use of private email while serving as U.S. secretary of state. Here are the results of the unscientific survey based on as many as 1,300 responses.

1) Clinton made the right decision to use her own email server and this story is not really a big deal.

Strongly agree 17%

Agree 17%

Disagree 10%

Strongly disagree 56%

2) Her actions will harm her politically and make it more difficult for Clinton to win the Democratic nomination for president in 2016.

Strongly agree 34%

Agree 27%

Disagree 23%

Strongly disagree 16%

3) In Kansas, legislators should change the law that says emails sent to and from private email addresses on private computers are not public documents, even when public officials are sending documents to each other.

Strongly agree 35%

Agree 18%

Disagree 15%

Strongly disagree 32%

4) Given concerns over hacking, governments at the local, state and federal levels should require all public officials to use only government-approved email servers for all correspondence.

Strongly agree 68%

Agree 17%

Disagree 9%

Strongly disagree 5%

This story was originally published March 10, 2015 at 3:12 PM with the headline "Monday Poll results: Your views on Hillary Clinton’s use of private email."

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