Four dozen local cultural institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Natural History, want to have their cake and eat it too, reports WNYC/Gothamist.

By law, any city institution or building that gets tax breaks or full exemptions has to allow the Board of Elections to use it as a polling place. But 52 museums and so on are asking to dodge that Election Day duty.

Most claim it would be hard for them to host a polling site: The New-York Historical Society and the Met call it a “hardship”; the Museum of Natural History cites an “unmanageable impact.”

Bull: The Met and many of the rest are huge. It’s not that rough for most of them to dedicate one entrance area, or a cafeteria, for a voting area. And if it is such a heavy burden, well, you’re free to give up your tax break.

The city sometimes demands too much from these institutions, but not in this case.