Kelvin Davis. The Advance NZ coalition gained one percent of the party vote (28,429 party votes), well below the five percent level needed to enter Parliament, so Te Kahika was not elected to Parliament. Following the election, Te Kahika alleged that it had been rigged and that Advance NZ ballots had been disqualified because voters added comments or smiley faces to their ballots. He also claimed that 200,000 votes had not been properly counted. He refused to accept the election result and said he planned a tally of Advance voters to prove the official process was corrupt. The Electoral Commission disputed Te Kahika's allegations that adding comments to a ballot would invalidate them and rejected his allegation about the 200,000 lost votes. In a later post, he said that his figure of 200,000 was a mistake but stuck to his claim that Advance voters' ballots had been disqualified for writing comments and drawing smiley faces on them. On 26 October, Te Kahika severed ties with Advance NZ after its election failure, stating that he had decided not to continue with the party. Later that day, he issued a statement clarifying that he was not severing relations with Advance NZ but was rather restoring its "autonomy." Te Kahika also vowed not to step down as party leader and reiterated his support for Advance NZ. In mid-November 2020, Newsroom and Newshub reported that Te Kahika and his NZ Public Party were locked in a dispute with Advance NZ over the ownership of party policies and access to funds within an ASB Bank account. On 6 November, Ross sent a letter to Te Kahika and the NZ Public Party claiming that the policies that the parties had co-written were owned and copyrighted by Advance NZ. In addition, the NZ Public Party claimed that the ASB account was a shared account while Advance NZ's lawyer Graeme Edgeler contended that the account belonged to them. Ross also threatened Te Kahika with legal action in response to the latter's claims that Ross and his party committed theft and misconduct. On 14 January 2021, Te Kahika led a "freedom rally" outside the New Zealand Parliament. The rally opposed the Government's COVID-19 lockdown, 1080 usage, water fluoridation, Communist China, and the United Nations, and expressed support for United States President Donald Trump. The rally was attended by between 100 and 150 people with Te Kahika being accompanied by