You can go ahead and mark this as closed. User error.
I had a CSS padding rule on the select box, and it caused the text to become invisible.
Thank you for your support.
The link is previously listed. There are currently two select lists without any visible option selected. Also when an option is chosen, the selected option is not the currently visible value.
Please see the following images for a more detailed explanation:
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Console:
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