The Right to Vote

I've come across a posting on Courttv.com regarding the opinion of a well educated and no doubt high-society minded woman, a Ms. Lisa Bloom.
http://www.courttv.com/people/bloom_blog/111605_voting_ctv.html
She is of the opinion that convicted felons should have the right to vote. Her argument references suffragists who fought for women's right to cast ballots. I wonder if Ms. Bloom considers herself a modern day suffragist, as she boldly displays her personal views on Courttv.com. She states that felons should be given a "voter registration packet and good newspapers" upon release from prison. Ms. Bloom also thinks that felons, upon release, should begin taking their children to the voting polls with them. The article also refers to the voting power of the African American population basically being suppressed due to high incarceration rates.
I take issue with just about every argument Ms. Bloom makes. The foremost problem I identify is that this is entirely unrealistic. Wouldn't we be living in a world of floating fairies, rainbows, and furry little kittens if even the majority of convicted felons would rehabilitate? Instead, here we are, stuck forever in reality, where the vast majority of felons recidivate. Not to mention the obvious, which is both their questionable character and lacking morality that contributed to criminal activity in the first place. I find it ludicrous that anyone would be naive enough to believe that an individual who has evidently graduated from the commission of misdemeanors to the commission and conviction of felonies would ever take the time to vote. Giving convicted felons the privilege to participate in choosing political leaders is insane. Political leaders are chosen to represent the ideals of the majority. Thankfully the majority is law abiding. Ms. Bloom takes the unfair and extinct literacy law enforced upon freed slaves to prevent them from voting and compares it to the law that a convicted African American felon can not vote. I would obviously agree that the literacy law was created to oppress. However the law that prevents felons from voting hopes to weed out individuals lacking in character and morality from casting ballots, not an entire race of people. If a large portion of a race becomes excluded as a result of this law a far greater problem lies elsewhere. Convicted felons should never have the right to influence the outcome of who may be our leaders. For that matter let us lower the voting age to seven before such a mockery is made of us all.
It's hard to comprehend the absurdity of it. I wonder if Ms. Bloom would rest easier knowing that the politicians running our country were voted into office by the very people who made her fear living in the society itself?