Glad you asked - few people ever seem to bother :-(
The underlying mathematics is a bit complicated but is the reason we can give out high votes.
We wanted to move away from the easier-to-understand fixed-% votes per token model, which we do anyway with both MAPX and MAPXV, but I'm finding it hard to explain it without the maths.
RE: MAXUV Weekly Statement & News - 5 January 2020 [MAP Steem FinTech]