There is some concern that vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's emails might have been erased, since she was using Yahoo email to conduct state business. This problem will have to be added to a long list of concerns about disappearing public records, since the George Bush White House has seen tens of thousands of emails disappear even though government email accounts were used.
AOL News
October 10, 2008
"...Palin has occasionally used private e-mail accounts to conduct state business, and her Yahoo accounts were hacked last month. The hacking of Palin's private account was significant because it showed that using private e-mail accounts to conduct state business would be vulnerable to being exposed.
"It wasn't widely known that the governor and her staff were using private e-mail accounts until McLeod filed the first of several open records requests earlier this year that yielded some of the e-mail traffic — much of it redacted for what were deemed privacy reasons.
"'The judge ordered the attorney general to contact Yahoo and other private carriers to preserve any e-mails sent and received on those accounts. If the e-mails were destroyed when the accounts were deactivated, he directed state officials to have the companies attempt to resurrect the e-mails.
"'We shouldn't be in a position where public records have been lost because the governor didn't do what every other state employee knows to do, which is to use an official, secure state e-mail account to conduct state business," McLeod said after the 90-minute hearing.
"'It's a dereliction of the governor and her duties," she said."
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