Washington Post<\/span> opinion writer, Katrina vanden Heuvel suggests that the best way to protect voting rights and eliminate voter suppression is through a constitutional amendment.\u00a0 Interestingly enough, she suggests connecting it with a new stimulus package.\u00a0 She writes:<\/p>\n The outlines of a stimulus package for our democracy might start with universal voter registration<\/a>, guaranteeing that every eligible American can get access to a ballot, along with a constitutional amendment protecting the right to vote<\/a>. We could finally replace the Electoral College with a national popular vote, in the spirit of the Seventeenth Amendment that provided for the direct election of senators.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n