This is the solution I came up with, with the help of a friend.. it basically re-writes the form HTML and bypasses the Java script

In this case, the original search was by county and $line = the value I pulled in from a list...

my $form = $browser->form_name( 'formname' );
$form->action( 'https://destinationurl' );
$form->value( county => $line );
$browser->request( $form->click( 'buttonname' ) );
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