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There are two parts to this story:

-Estonia has an internet voting system

-Estonia just released the source code to their voting system

Even if internet voting is a terrible idea, a transparent election system is a very good idea, and releasing the source code for your voting system is a big step in that direction.

Ill-advised or not, at lot of countries are considering e-voting.

I think it's a bad idea as well, but like you, I think it's weird to be upset that there are people who want to help achieve the best solution/compromise, in the event that your country's government vote to implement something like this.

I'm as pro-government as the next European, but we can all think of horrible government project failures.

Shrink the scope and decentralize to reduce risk. In this case, at a cultural level: don't vote on puppets, but vote on everything the puppets do. We have the technology to enable direct democracy.

I don't agree to that. Current elections are costly, slow and bloated, meaning they can't be conducted often. Internet voting could allow for new forms of democracy altogether.

Can you expand on that? I could probably blab for three minutes on either side of the argument, but I don't know if I have any strong opinions about it right now.