Washington (CNN) -- If at first you don't succeed, try to change the rules. A proposal under consideration in Virginia's Republican-led state Legislature would change how the commonwealth allocates its 13 electoral votes in the wake of Democratic President Barack Obama's re-election last November. Obama won the popular vote in the crucial battleground state to claim all 13 electoral votes, even though GOP challenger Mitt Romney beat him in seven of the 11 congressional districts. Under the proposed alternative system, electoral votes would get divvied up by congressional districts won. In addition, Virginia's two other electoral votes -- one for each U.S. Senate seat -- would go to the candidate who won the most congressional districts.
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NEW: A spokesman for the Virginia governor says he does not support the proposal
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GOP state legislatures consider changing how they allocate electoral votes
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The proposed changes would have hurt President Obama in last year's election
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A similar push followed the hotly contested 2000 presidential election
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