I didn't vote today

I rarely skip voting, but I looked over the races (ward alderman, alderman-at-large, and one open position on the school board), didn't know any of the people. So I went down to the polling place, to see if any of the folks were actually THERE hanging out to talk to people, but nobody was -- there was this one time that the local candidates were standing there, so I was able to talk to them and make my choice that way. So, given that I had no information with which to make a choice, I didn't vote.

I thought about going in and just submitting an empty ballot, but that seemed silly.