s_ha_dum’s answer prompted me to look into this a little further. I checked the users in the database. It turns out that the dropdown list in Posts -> Edit is using the Display Name, not the User Login, as I had expected. So, the problem was not that WordPress was functioning incorrectly, but that my understanding of what field was being used was incorrect. I guess this was a “false negative.”
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