Lower The Voting Age To 16?

Today my Humanities class split into two groups and had a long discussion about an article we read recently called "You're 16, You're Beautiful and You're a Voter". This article talked all about the topic of weather or not the voting age should be lowered to sixteen years old. We all had a very insightful conversation and we all got a real understanding of the pros and cons of what doing this would be. Fortunately most of us went through the seminar being as unbiased as possible and really listening what each person had to say about the subject.
By the end of the seminar, my group members all came to a general consensus that lowering the voting age to sixteen would not be a smart dicision because most of them aren't that affected by most of the issues on the ballot by that point. However, I did come to believe that by giving teenagers the chance to vote and participate in the election process might make them more responsible while becoming adults as well preparing them for the next election so that they will be more experienced when it really counts and they will be able to make a more educated dicision.