Tony Nutt made the comments during a public hearing into planned changes to the way the Senate is elected.
The federal government wants legislation on Senate reform to pass this month.
But Labor is attempting to put it off until May 12 - a day after the final date a double-dissolution election can be called.
Leading the public submissions in Canberra today electoral commissioner Tom Rogers said the Australian Electoral Commission is ready to hold a federal election.
But he warns that a minimum three month timeline is based on current legislation now before parliament, and that if it changes significantly the commission would have to revise timing and cost estimates.
"I've provided indicative advise on costings and resource implications and an estimated three month minimum time frame to implement the changes. However, I do wish to emphasise that this estimation and all associated advice is based on the broad shape of the current proposal. Should the Bill change significantly the AEC will need to revise its timing, cost and other resource estimates."
Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party Senator Ricky Muir has criticised the hearing as biased and unbalanced.
In a question to Electoral Commissioner Tom Rogers, Mr Muir criticised the half day allocated for a public hearing and the need for the committee to report back by Wednesday.
"Yep, this is the most biased and unbalanced committee I've ever been in but anyway ... in your submission you mentioned three important things - time, funding and resources. We don't know if you'll have enough time to prepare for these changes because we don't know when the election is apparently."
Family First Senator Bob Day used the hearing to try and ask Tony Nutt, Federal Director of the Liberal Party, exactly when Australians would be going to the polls.
"Mr Nutt, it's been reported that only yourself and the Prime Minister know when the election will be. Can you tell the Committee when the election will be held and what role this legislation will play in that decision making? Senator Day, that question is clearly out of order as it's not related to the provisions of this Bill."
Tony Nutt responded with this answer.
"The news is that only God and Malcolm Turnbull know when the election will be and neither of them have told me."
Adjunct Professor Antony Green from the University of Sydney describes the complexities of the existing system as a herding process used by political parties to get people to vote above the line.
"You have been herding people above the line for the last three decades by making the choice of how to vote asymmetrical. You can walk in and you can vote 1, or you've got to fill in every box below the line. It's a herding process to make people vote above the line. "
Political commentator Malcolm Mackerras warns of an inevitable High Court challenge.
"I look forward to the inevitable High Court case with fear and delight. My fear is that the Court will use the precedent of McKindley to give the OK to a rotten piece of legislation. My delight is that the prospect of the Courts striking down the enactment and telling the grubby politicians how to enact a decent reform."
Meanwhile, as the public hearing got under way in Canberra, Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull rallied members in the Coalition Party room.
"Institutional reform is important right across the board. The Senate has not been representative of the will of the people because as we know voters have had their preferences determined by backroom deals, by preference whisperers who have constructed these masses of micro parties, often with the same public officers negotiating with themselves. So people have voted for one party and their preferences ended up with the party whose objectives apparently are completely at odds with the one they thought they were voting for."
Liberal Democratic Senator David Lleyjonhelm described the half day hearing into the biggest changes to our electoral laws in 30 years as an absurd situation.
Senior Labor Senator, Stephen Conroy has offered possibly the strongest words to rush through the changes to the Senate voting rules.
"The last Bill on the last day before this parliament is dissolved will be a filthy deal concocted by the Greens and Senator Cormann and friends. This is actually like going back in time to the 1950s in Stalin's Russia. "
The joint committee will table its report to parliament tomorrow morning.
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