She WAS elected. By whom, or what, we'll never know. Boxer, Feinstein, Waxman, Watts, ditto. And as far as the CA State Legislature goes, and it's damned far, they are voted in by multiple-voting illegal aliens, some of whom are actually alive.
Check in with B1 Bob Dornan, who thought illegal Mexicans were cute and hard workers who do a hell of a job on the lawn, until Loretta Sanchez used them, alive, dead, and completely imaginary, to cheat him out of office.
She was APPOINTED because the former Sheriff was a crook and got indicted for corruption and witness tampering.