Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide for direct popular election of the President and the Vice President of the United States.

Constitutional Amendment - Abolishes the electoral college system of electing the President and Vice President of the United States. Provides that the President and Vice President shall be elected by the people of the several States and the District constituting the seat of Government of the United States Requires the electors for President and Vice President in each State to have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature, but Congress may establish uniform residence and age qualifications for electors for President and Vice President.

Requires each elector to cast a single vote jointly applicable to President and Vice President.

Provides that, on or before the 15th day of December of every year during which a President and Vice President are elected, the official custodian of the election returns of each State and the District of Columbia shall prepare, sign, certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the Government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate, a list of all persons for whom votes were cast for President and a separate list of all persons for whom votes were cast for Vice President.

Provides that, on the sixth day of January following the election, unless the Congress by law appoints a different day not earlier than the fourth day of January and not later than the tenth day of January, the President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and the House of Representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted. States that the person having the greatest number of votes for President shall be the President and the person having the greatest number of votes for Vice President shall be the Vice President.

Provides that if, at the time fixed for the counting of the certified vote totals from the respective States and the District of Columbia, the Presidential candidate who would have been entitled to election as President shall have died, the Vice Presidential candidate entitled to election as Vice President shall be declared elected President.

Directs Congress to provide procedures to be followed in consequence of the death or withdrawal of a candidate on or before the date of an election under this article, and for the case of a tie in any election for President and Vice President.