Those switches are designed for carrying significant currents, and are designed around the idea that the current arc flash-over will act to keep the contacts clean.
That's not going to happen in your application.
Something like
this would probably be better suited to your application.
As far as rerouting is concerned, as long as you aren't trying to route them 10 meters or something you should be just fine to simply splice the wiring and lengthen it.