Determine whether or not the procedure described below resul

Determine whether or not the procedure described below results in a binomial distribution. If it is not binomial, identify at least one requirement that is not satisfied.

Five hundred different voters in a region with two major political parties, A and B, are randomly selected from the population of 8500 registered voters. Each is asked if he or she is a member of political party A.

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there 500 people , this implies the number of trials N is fixed

there are two major political parties, this implies there are two outcomes

as far as probability of selecting a person is concerned nothing is mentioned in the question

The fourth condtion states that each trial is independent of the other , in this case it may be possible that if your friend or family votes for a particular party you too are inclined to vote for same. Thus the condition of Independency of all the trials is not satisfied in this situation