Abstract: Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems generate a social ballot for users within a communication system. Using interactions performed by users within the communication system, the communication system generates a social ballot for a user that includes political questions impacting the user. For example, the communication system identifies users that are impacted by the political issue. The communication system determines a response to a question regarding the political issue for a first user and determines whether a connection between the first user and a second user also impacted by the political issue meets a threshold level of affinity. When the connection between the first user and the second user meets the threshold level of affinity, the communication system generates a ballot for the second user that includes the question regarding the political issue and the response for the first user, and transmits the ballot to the second user.

Abstract: Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems generate a civic graph of users within a communication system. Using connections formed within the civic graph, the communication system recommends additional connections between nodes representing constituents and nodes representing political office holders. For example, a request is received from a first user of a communication system to interact with a second user of the communication system. A first node representing the second user is determined to be connected to a second node representing a political office by a first edge, the first edge representing that the second user holds the political office represented by the second node. In response to the received request and the determination that the second user holds the political office, a recommendation is transmitted to the first user, including one or more interface objects enabling the first user to interact with another political office holder in the civic graph.