I'd agree that something needs to be tweaked as it just looks odd with the upvote number higher than the viewcount number.
What you've suggested above could potentially work; although, there are people out there who would like to organically vote for more than four articles per day.
Perhaps somewhere in between then. I'm a very active user, online every day, and there's no way I could vote (meaningfully) 40 times a day without turning it into a second job.