If the Chief Electoral Officer has been restricted to 90 days, it seems to me that they may have lived under a certain amount of stress. So far I've been in five elections--six actually, because I lost the first one--and it seems to have gone pretty smoothly with the 90-day temporary employee hiring. If in fact they are feeling a lot of stress about it, I could understand extending it by 10 days or something, but he's almost doubling it.
For example, a usual election is about five weeks. At seven-day weeks with no break, he can hire people for 12 weeks plus six days. You'd take some of it before the election and some of it after. It seems to me there's lots of time in there to run an election. If he starts them off at five-day weeks--just supposing he worked out five-day weeks--at 90 days, it would be 18 weeks of employment to run a five-week election. I think probably the seven-day week is closer to the truth, because I know locally they work every day.
To go from 90 to 175 days means going from, say, 12 weeks and six days to 35 weeks. That seems to be an unreasonable extension.