The running of a private vote testing pubic opinion on the repeal of Section 28 has been condemned as farcical.
Critics say thousands of people have received no ballot papers while others have been posted dozens.
The ballot papers have been dropping through letterboxes for several days now and is being targeted at Scotland's four million electorate. Some critics are saying that the electoral roll the ballot is based on is so out of date it would make voting a nonsense. The outdate statistics also mean that those who have recently turned 18 will not be included in the vote. Wrong addresses It has also been claimed that several hundred were delivered to Edinburgh University's Pollock Halls of Residence addressed to students who have long since moved on. The general secretary of the Scottish TUC Bill Spiers, who has not received a voting slip, said the ballot was rapidly becoming a farce.