GUILFORD COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) — After a nearly two-week-long delay, board of elections officers throughout North Carolina are now preparing to mail out the first wave of absentee ballots to voters. The delay came after third-party presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dropped out of the presidential race, and a court decided the ballots needed to be reprinted. So far, the Guilford County Board of Elections has put together around 7,000 envelopes with absentee ballots, and by Friday, Sept. 20, they expect to have a total of 9,000 to mail out to voters. "We're playing catch up ... We've worked hard on that, and we're in a good place,” Guilford County Board of Elections Director Charlie Collicutt said. It’s going to be a big push at the end of the week for the GCBoE to meet federal and state deadlines for mailing out the first wave of absentee ballots. “We're going to get our military and overseas out by Friday ... Civilian absentee ballots are going to go out by Tuesday,” Collicutt said. “People can still request. We'll send ballots after that.” Collicutt said that his staff has been busy and hard at work throughout this week and last week. "What those days look like is just a big team of our big ramped-up seasonal staff quietly putting ballots into envelopes, proofing ballots, labeling ballots and folding instructions and getting things ready for the mail," Collicutt said. As the deadline to mail out absentee ballots approaches, the board of elections staff has also been helping numerous people stopping by to register to vote, request absentee ballots and onboard poll workers. With voters needing a photo ID to cast their vote, they have also seen people coming in to get voter IDs. “We’ve had some small groups come in and do them ... We'll get a couple every once in a while, to come in, but we're not inundated or overwhelmed with that process at this time,” Collicutt said. There are a number of different forms of IDs that are accepted to vote. Some included on the list are a North Carolina driver’s license, a state ID, a U.S. Passport and, in some cases, a college ID.  If you've just moved here, there's still time to get things sorted out. "If you come in from another state, and you've registered within 90 days of the election,” Collicutt said. “If you register now ... You can use that out-of-state ID but not if you register to vote outside of 90 days prior to the election. The assumption is that you should have gotten a North Carolina ID.” There's another detail Collicutt wants voters to note. "I just want people to know that if you don't have a photo ID, but you had an impediment to presenting that ID, there is an exception form at the polls ... Don't not come to vote. If you have an ID issue, maybe you do have something that will work," Collicutt said. The deadline to register to vote in the 2024 general election is Friday, Oct. 11. The last date absentee ballots can be requested is Oct. 29. Those completed absentee ballots have to be mailed back to The GCBoE by election day, Nov. 5 at 7:30 p.m.