An Anchorage Superior Court judge will decide by the end of the month whether to uphold a significant fine levied by Alaska’s campaign finance regulators against backers of a petition seeking to roll back the state’s election laws.

The Alaska Public Offices Commission, the state agency involved in campaign finance regulation, fined petition supporters more than $90,000 after concluding they had illegally funneled money through a church in Washington state. 

The supporters appealed the decision…