The Virginia Supreme Court has again ruled that voters will get to cast ballots on a congressional redistricting plan that could help Democrats in this year’s midterm elections. The court said Wednesday that the April 21 referendum can go forward while it considers a legal challenge to the redistricting plan. Early voting for the referendum is supposed to begin Friday. It comes after the court made a similar ruling in February stemming from another tangential civil action. The Supreme Court agreed to hear that case, though it won’t be resolved before the April referendum. The Virginia plan is part of a national redistricting battle between some Republican and Democratic states.

Virginia Democrats have passed a new congressional map that aims to flip four U.S. House seats, but the courts and voters still must have a say before the maps are official. The new gerrymandered map aims to help the party in the national redistricting battle. However, Democrats in Virginia were delivered a setback when a judge blocked the ' proposed voter referendum on redistricting, which was set for April 21. Democrats are appealing that decision and another from the same judge, who said the referendum process was rushed. The state Supreme Court has already taken up that earlier appeal.