Python Selenium Internet explorer not able to find css selector, or xpath

So a little background on this, flask is being run through alwaysup, which keeps flask always up as a windows service. This whole process makes my selenium script start in a different instance not in the local VM. When it's running in that instance, it has the same internet settings and it navigates to the url without any problem. It gets stuck once it needs to start filling out the form, for example. driver.find_element_by_id('ctl00_PlaceHolderMain_CreatePerson_uoc_BasicInfo_grouping_UserType\
_control_internalDropDownList').send_keys(Keys.DOWN) is the first element it's looking for and it's unable to find it, even with a sleep timer.