Anyone feel like our phones are set to spam us with a certain amount of emails per day?

No

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Any solutions, besides leaving them all unread like heathens?

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dont be a patsy; just ignore them. i probably have 100,000 emails+ under 'promotions, social and updates'

by clicking to delete them, you're effectively reading the ads.

i don't know what it but there is a very important proxy vote that has been my last chance to vote on for about month. They remind me every day

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First mistake. Any response is better than no response.
If you ignore/delete, they go away somewhat.

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This...

you essentially let them know that someone was live on the other end, which made your address worth way more

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Spent an hour last week unsubscribing from about 20 different websites that I've bought things from in the past.

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rookie mistake

As a couple other people have suggested, it is arguably better to ignore unsolicited emails since interacting with the emails confirms your email address is valid. This has implications for not only legitimate websites/online retailers/advertisers, but sadly with regards to hackers/phishing attempts... and once your email is out in the wild and gets spread to other advertisers (or an email list gets hacked), probabilities of a bad actor using them increase.

There are different ways to set up a good system, but I think a common, good practice is to have 3 or more emails:

1) a shopping / newsletter email address where it's not the end of the world if you have thousands of unread emails and you can be selective in what emails you look at or ignore.

2) a personal one you keep a close eye on for friends, acquaintances, and maybe business if you don't have a separate work email.

3) one you use for banking/finance only. Never use this one for shopping or anything that gets you on an email list, and don't use for personal emails in case a friend gets hacked and spams you. This will drastically decrease odds of receiving phishing emails here. (And you will know that if you get a bank email to your shopping email (email #1 above) that it's suspicious.)

It may seem like more work, but keeping track of all emails in 2 & 3 and letting #1 grow wild with unread emails will be a lot less work in the long term than reading every email. And it will keep you safer.