A visually impaired OrCam user demonstrates using the technology to vote
Blind and visually impaired voters across Israel will be able to cast their ballots in Tuesday’s general election without any assistance, courtesy of an Israeli-developed artificial vision device.
There are approximately 24,000 Israelis registered as blind today, of whom 22,000 have the right to vote. A further 100,000 voters are visually impaired.
Jerusalem-based artificial vision device maker OrCam has partnered with the Central Elections Committee and the Center for the Blind in Israel in a pilot program seeking to enable every voter to exercise his democratic right while preserving the right to vote by secret ballot.